YOUR NEWS – The Lure of the City
By John WaterhousePlays reflect life, or at least that’s the aim of many writers, whether through satire, farce or realism.
To this end, a number of key settings lend themselves to targeted explorations of this topic. For Alan Ayckbourn, the drama setting is usually middle class suburbia. For Noël Coward, Terrence Rattigan or Henrik Ibsen, the action is more likely to be in a high society mansion. The Lancashire comedy, best exemplified perhaps by Harold Brighouse’s Hobson’s Choice; almost certainly featuring a terraced str eet (and so too with Sheila Delaney). The common factor with all these writers is that they tend to look at how a particular social segment behaves in its respective domestic environment, with all the accompanying sub-cultures and parlances.
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