************************* After their success last year with David Bown’s critically acclaimed play, Stand ,Reform Theatre Company make a welcome return to York Theatre this February with Gordon Steel’s award winning family drama Dead Fish. The play is set to thrill audiences in the Studio at York Theatre Royal from 22-24 February at 7.45pm. Dead Fish is a hilarious and tragically moving account of one family's struggle to survive the rigours of daily life. Years of working in the steel industry have taken their toll on Gilbert Blackett and when his eldest son Ray decides he doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps it threatens to rip the heart out of the family. This moving piece of drama is told with gut-wrenching emotion and side-splitting humour as the family encounter hardship, loss, ambition and most of all family love. Directed by Keith Hukin and Starring Dee Whitehead (Maggie Calder in Emmerdale) and Roger Bingham (Barry Boothroyd in Dream Team), Dead Fish is Gordon Steel's first and ,arguably, most powerful play, winner of a Fringe First and nominated for an Independent Newspaper Critics Award. Reform Theatre Company is a Sheffield-based company, formed in 1998 by actor/ director Keith Hukin. The company produces plays by northern playwrights and tours throughout the country in small to mid-scale venues. The company recently had completed sell-out shows of April in Paris by John Godber and Kissing Sid James by Robert Farquhar. “A powerfully acted, moving drama” The Independent Tickets are priced at £10.00 (Under 25s and Students are £5.00) and can be purchased at the York Theatre Royal Box Office or by calling 01904 623568. Tickets are also available on www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk **************************