Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Nov 5-11)
This Machine Kills Fascists: Folk singer Rowan Rheingans celebrates small acts of resistance. Plus The Offing (Review) and a spooky audio-drama set in Whitby.
I prefer the North Bay.
Anyone who knows Yorkshire can now place me exactly in the poisonous etiology of the British class system. There are good and bad hotels right across this historic seaside town (which was arguably the UK’s first bathing resort), but to prefer Scarborough’s North Bay is to opt for peaceful gentility over the more raucous amusements of the South.
The upper-middle-classes meanwhile — and I’ve met a few — are up on the North York Moors inflicting purgatory on their adolescent children in the form of leaky, old camper vans. “It’s the school fees… ”
And so, being upper-lower-middle class in my very bones, I slogged up the Ravine to the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the centre of town. I was there to watch The Offing, a play adapted by Janice Okoh (with additional material by director Paul Robinson) from Benjamin Myers’s successful novel.
Set during a nameless summer just after the Second World War, …