Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Nov 19-25)
Third Generation Single Mum: Is That Okay? Hull Truck Theatre Unveil Their Full 50th Anniversary Programme. Plus the first Christmas shows.
Hull Truck Theatre have just unveiled their 50th Anniversary programme. World premieres by playwrights John Godber, Richard Bean and Amanda Whittington are at the heart of it.
Godber, who built his international profile at Hull Truck, has written another instalment of Teechers, which in 1987 blasted the lack of support for potentially transformative drama-in-education at the level of ‘bog-standard’ comprehensive schools. The post-Covid version, Teechers Leavers ‘22, has exam chaos, tech poverty, isolation, absenteeism and lost school hours in its sights. May 19-Jun 11, £10-£28.50
Remember the year that the super-posh annual Royal Ascot meeting came to York Racecourse because the stands at Ascot were out of action? Amanda Whittington’s Ladies Day was the tale of four Hull fish-filleters who won some tickets to the big-hat jamboree. To celebrate Hull Truck’s anniversary she’s writing a third installment of the Ladies trilogy…