A play about a play within the play by JOHN ARDEN witlf Elizabeth Bell. Peter Jeffrey, David Calder and music composed by Stephen Boxer
' I find nowt now in the whole of England fit for the tip of my pen. We spoke once to the whole people. But these days we have rejected the home-spun jackets, the square-toed shoes, and the forthright word of the godly tradesmen. And by God they've rejected us. There are those in Parliament have said openly they close down every playhouse if they once attained full power. And I want them to attain full power. And the whole of my life's work will be broken in two by it ... '
JULIAN DRAKE (COrneUo), JOHN TURNER (crumhorns, flutes, recorders), EPHRAIM SEGERMAN (viols, cittern, lute), BILL NICKSON (percussion), STEPHEN BOXBR (psaltery lyre, dulcimer) Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester