When commissioned by the Finborough, the young director Jake Daniel (one to watch) suggested dusting off Andy Capp The Musical, not least because he hails from near Hartlepool himself and, he tells me, he recognised the world he grew up in, a coastal area in the North-East where so many men had been left disempowered after years of severe decline in shipbuilding and other local industries.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:36AM on February 9, 2016