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John Godber’s B&B drama – performed by the playwright, with his family – launches programme that includes one-woman Christmas show
A play written by John Godber during lockdown is to be performed by the playwright, his wife and their daughter at the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough. It is the centrepiece of an autumn season of work that marks the theatre’s long-awaited reopening for socially distanced audiences. With pantos across the land postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the season even includes a festive family show. A previously announced production of The Snow Queen has been revamped as a wicked one-woman show starring Polly Lister.
The theatre’s artistic director, Paul Robinson, has spent weeks planning the reopening this October. It feels, he said, “a bit like being the canary down the coalmine”, especially as the new season had mostly been programmed before the government finally gave the green light to indoor performances with reduced audiences last weekend. Continue reading...