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Shafted!

  • John Godber
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Docudrama/Historic, 1980s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573116230

Shafted! moves forwards and backwards over time, starting after the Miners' Strike in 1984.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Docudrama/Historic

  • Time Period: 1980s, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Shafted! moves forwards and backwards over time, starting after the Miners' Strike in 1984.

Act I demonstrates the depression and hopelessness which engulfed a West Yorkshire mining village post the strike and the plethora of menial jobs which Harry found in order to try and make a living. By the late 1990s Dot had suggested they move to Bridlington to start a new life running a Boarding House. 

Act II starts in 2016 with Dot suffering from cancer, immobile in a wheelchair, the act moves backwards through the success of the boarding house and their new life together, to the time they left Upton to run the boarding house in the 1990s.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F

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Shafted! moves forwards and backwards over time, starting after the Miners' Strike in 1984.

Act I demonstrates the depression and hopelessness which engulfed a West Yorkshire mining village post the strike and the plethora of menial jobs which Harry found in order to try and make a living. By the late 1990s Dot had suggested they move to Bridlington to start a new life running a Boarding House. 

Act II starts in 2016 with Dot suffering from cancer, immobile in a wheelchair, the act moves backwards through the success of the boarding house and their new life together, to the time they left Upton to run the boarding house in the 1990s.

$24.95

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