Review: Boys from the Blackstuff at Theatre Royal - The Bath Magazine
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Review: Boys from the Blackstuff at Theatre Royal - The Bath Magazine
Words by Isabelle Blakeney It took a long time for writer Alan Bleasdale to be convinced that his hit 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff should be rewritten for the stage. The original series was ground-breaking in its portrayal of contemporary life in Thatcher’s Liverpool, with unemployment rates at an all-time high, increasing reliance on state benefits and ideas of community and identity rapidly changing as de-industrialisation ripped th…
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