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Road review " community spirit turns sour in Thatcher's Britain by Mark Fisher

Northern Stage, NewcastleLittle leavens the air of hopelessness in Jim Cartwright's 1986 collage of awkwardly staged monologues Angela Rayner would probably approve of the "Tory scum" slogan scrawled in orange spraypaint on the corrugated iron at the back of Amelia Jane Hankin's two-storey set. It is a sentiment that pervades Jim Cartwright's 1986 play, a vision of despair and despondency at the fag-end of Thatcher's…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM on October 16, 2021

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