Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Dec 17-23)
You've Got To Be Carefully Taught... Chichester Festival Theatre's acclaimed production of South Pacific comes to Yorkshire in 2022. Plus, shows that celebrate 'the hinge of the year'.
Great Aunt Peg was like a character from a story book. Clever, gossipy and full of fun, she was adored by her younger relatives and by the junior employees of the accountancy firm where, in the later stages of her life, she established the financial career her razor-sharp intelligence deserved. When she died, having against the odds reached her eighties, she was discovered slumped over her kitchen table besides a smouldering fag end and a half-drunk glass of late-night whiskey.
Hers was a life over-shadowed with darkness. Born into an Irish Catholic family in Cardiff, South Wales, just after the First World War, she had a vivid early memory of being forced to lie quietly in a wet County Cork ditch with her mother whilst soldiers of some militia or other fired shots over their heads. (They’d chosen this inopportune moment to visit relatives in Macroom.)
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