Britannia Waves The Rules – Hope Street Theatre - North West End UK

Britannia Waves The Rules – Hope Street Theatre - North West End UK

Gareth Farr’s 2011 Bruntwood Prize winning play is a brutal and gritty account of a young man’s journey from the cold, wet beaches of Blackpool to the dry, burning deserts of Afghanistan and it takes no prisoners along the way. It’s a tough but important story to listen to and a sad reflection on society that its message still resonates so strongly some fifteen years on. It’s grim up north and nowhere more so than Blackpool which only has rose-t…