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Annie And Fanny
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by Bill Naughton And Lawrence Till
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Big Corner, The
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Bill and Alf, two young Bolton lads hungry for adventure, discover the mystery and the delights of girls as they grow up together. Every night they meet at the 'Big Corner' at the end of the road to tell (and exaggerate) the stories of their days. One day they meet a girl and both fall in love. After choosing Alf, they marry and every night as they go to bed he tells her a story recounting his escapades growing up as she falls asleep. A kaleidoscope of Bolton life, The Big Corner is a story of hope, young friendship, love and heartache.
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adapted from short stories of Bill Naughton
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Octagon, Bolton
19 Apr 2018
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Derby Day
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Play By Bill Naughton
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Octagon, Bolton
1994
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Kes
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Sensitively scripted and stunningly staged, Kes is essentially about a community which fails its young. At its heart is Billy, an apparently backward kid, neglected by his tarty mother, beaten up by his older brother and bullied on all sides. Billy's solace is his pet kestrel, on which he lavishes all the tenderness he has never known' the Times.
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written with Terry Davies. From Barry Hines Novel
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Octagon, Bolton
1995
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Nick Hern Books, London, 2004
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Play/Drama
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Male: 11 Female: 2 Other: -
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Pat And Margaret
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Pat is the biggest thing on American television. She has three houses, a pool and an open-top Mercedes. Margaret is a waitress in a motorway cafeteria. She lives in a bedsit over a shop. Pat and Margaret are sisters. They are reunited after 27 years, on the popular live TV show Magic Moments. Pat, who has shoved her past firmly to the back of the wardrobe, is horrified by the reappearance of this lumpy relative. But, in the glare of the Press's interest, she has no choice but to play along. Margaret, swept along initially in a whirlwind of camera flashes and champagne, struggles to make a connection between the star of Glamor and the Pat Mottershead she shared a life with all those years ago
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TV Play By Victona Wood. Originally a television production, starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood, Pat and Margaret is the hilarious saga of sibling affection and disaffection.
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Octagon, Bolton
29 Jan 1999
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comedy Adaptation
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Male: 1 Female: 6 Other: doubling
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