Zoo Zoo Widdershins Zoo (1983)

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by K.B.Laffan

Directed by Charles Cheetham

Performances:Sun 12th – Sat 18th June 1983, Bell Theatre


Introduction , from the programme

Zoo Zoo Widdershins Zoo is an immensely funny and lively play about a group of young people living together in a flat in the Midlands in the sixties. They are all out of work, living off national assistance, occasional shop-lifting and telephone boxes!

The play was first-prize winner at the National Student Drama Festival in 1969 where it was presented by students from Leicester University. A proessional production subsequently opened at the Nottingham Playhouse and transferred to the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival prior to opening in the West End.

Cast

Crew

Reviews

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Gallery

Reminiscences and Anecdotes

The June issue of SCENE had an article from Steve Hannington on the cast's trip to Dudley Zoo "for publicity shots and to check Brummie accents" they were told (in the pub where bitter was 54p a pint) by the locals, "Wim not Broomies: wim Black Country lads. This is a posh poob. Them talk different oover there"

This production was also performed on May 31st & June 2nd at the English Amateur Theatre Week in the Playhouse at The Questors Theatre Ealing.

Kevin Barry Laffan (born 1922) also created the lunchtime TV Soap "Emmerdale Farm"; now the evening programme "Emmerdale".

See Also

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