New Company Scores Classic Hit with Myth ; Review Bill Stone

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BARRY SANIGAR wrote this play in 1971 to inaugurate the Stables Theatre Company, a group consisting chiefly of young offenders. He rewrote and redirected it in 1982, again to great critical and popular acclaim, and has completed the hat-trick with another new group, the Devonport Daylight Theatre Company, a joint project between Hamoaze House and the DRC Partnership.

This satirical send-up plays fast and loose with a tale familiar from Greek mythology. Topical and local references are updated, and new songs have been added by Jo Phillips and Naomi Crotty to stand alongside a sprinkling of established numbers.

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New Company Scores Classic Hit with Myth ; Review Bill Stone

but bearing in mind the circumstances affecting the company it was staggering what they...

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