Country Voices
Last Update 03-Jul-2008
by by Stuart Howson
Friday 17th October 2008
Presented by - NTC Touring Theatre CompanyLocation - Main House (P)Tickets £8.50Curtain Up 7.30pm
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Presented in association with Shindig, Worcestershire County Council, Arts Council England West Midlands and Wyre Forest District Counci
A feast of stories from the turn of the century to the First World War, some hilarious, some tragic, breathing life into the words, songs and stories of a Northumbrian farming family, part of the last generation to work by hand, horse and steam, on the land. |
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A rich harvest of joy and certainly some of the best new writing to come out of NTC over the past 30 years. “A vigorously comic dip into a grandparental world of farm workers. The struggle for survival is never far away and neither is the wit that made it bearable”. The Guardian |
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