Venue: Main House
Date: Tue 10 Apr - Fri 13 Apr
Time: 7.30pm with a 2.00pm matinee (Thu)
Produced by: Fresh Glory productions in association with the Guild of Lillians and the Customs House South Shields
Written by: Karin Young
Reviews
Wed 11 Apr 2012
Written by Ron Powls, Goole Times
The action of Karin Young’s play, solidly set in the North East, takes place over what should be the happiest of weekends for Lorna. Now in her seventies, she has, for the last three decades, since being politicized by her mining community’s fight against closure and Thatcherism, fought against a succession of social injustices...
Wed 11 Apr 2012
Written by The Joseph Rowntree School Ambassador, Hannah, Y10
A review of The Awkward Squad from one of our Joseph Rowntree School pupil ambassadors.
Thu 12 Apr 2012
Written by Julia Parry, One & Other
The Awkward Squad written by Karin Young, and currently showing at York Theatre Royal, is about family, failure, feminism and the future.
What chance does Lorna have of a quiet weekend when both daughters and her granddaughter descend on her with their own problems in this touching and hilarious family encounter.
Laughter and northern grit can get her only so far - she's spent three decades working for everyone else though the miners' strikes, local milk schemes and library closures and tomorrow she's to have a community centre named after her - but here’s her granddaughter thinking her new boob job is more important!
Audiences are laughing and crying along as a BAFTA, impending divorce, redundancy and a very upmarket caravanette give Lorna and her feisty daughters the chance to reconsider both the past and the future - for everyone.
BAFTA-winning Emmerdale writer Karin Young's play is an uplifting, heartfelt comedy, taking a sideways look at the challenges faced by modern women of all ages.
Starring Charlie Hardwick (Val in ITV’s Emmerdale), Barbara Marten (Casualty, Coronation Street), Libby Davison (The Bill) and Lisa McGrillis (Pitmen Painters)
"What The Awkward Squad has in abundance is heart and conviction"
- Evening Standard
"Heart-warming… funny and sharply written"
- whatsonstage.com
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