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Shafted!

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

John Godber

Shafted!

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    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Docudrama/History

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Summary
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 to 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.
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"Godber gives us two astutely observed, clear and clever character studies." - The Stage

"A ‘post-mining’ drama with real emotional impact." - The Guardian

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John Godber

John Godber
John Godber was born in 1956 in Upton, West Yorkshire, the son and grandson of miners. He trained as a teacher of drama at Bretton Hall College. Prior to his appointment as Artistic Director of Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1984, he was Head of Drama at Minsthorpe High School ...
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