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The Club on the Edge of Town - A Pandemic Memoir

English · Paperback / Softback

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A deeply moving memoir of how one theatre company, Slung Low, fed their local community during the Covid pandemic of 2020. This is the vivid story of the cost of trying to do good in a divided world.


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Alan Lane is Artistic Director of Slung Low, an award-winning theatre company based in the oldest surviving working men's club in the UK. Slung Low specialise in making large scale productions in non-theatre spaces with community performers at their heart. During the Covid crisis, the company was the ward lead for social care referrals in Holbeck and Beeston, nearly 8000 homes in South Leeds. They ran a non-means tested self-referral food bank from March 2020 to June 2021. Lane was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to South Leeds during the crisis.



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A deeply moving memoir of how one theatre company, Slung Low, fed their local community during the Covid pandemic of 2020. This is the vivid story of the cost of trying to do good in a divided world.

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‘Direct, honest and completely compelling; Alan’s story is more than just a memoir of the pandemic, it’s a manifesto on how to make the world a better place. It’s the story of two worlds thrown together in the toughest of circumstances, trying to love, help and understand each other. What could be more relevant to our times!’  – Sophie Willan, writer of Alma's Not Normal

Product details

Authors Alan Lane
Assisted by Hilary Benn (Introduction), Lemn Sissay (Foreword)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 07.04.2022
 
EAN 9781914228414
ISBN 978-1-914228-41-4
No. of pages 188
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
Weight 224 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Poverty and precarity

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