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Happy Jack
The Wharf
4 Green Lane
Romiley
Stockport Manchester SK6 3JG
Wed 4 Sep to Saturday 7 Sep 2024
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Happy Jack
Romiley Little Theatre's opening play of the 2024/25 Season, John Godber's Happy Jack is a funny and touching play about the lives of Jack and Liz. Set in a West Yorkshire mining village, the play is inspired by Godber’s own grandparents and follows the couple’s 60 year marriage through good times and bad.
Published a year after Godber's September in the Rain, we once again meet Liz and Jack, presenting small, lovingly detailed extracts from their lives, from their early courtship days, through to their retirement, but not in chronological order, so we constantly weave a path through their long life together.
Balancing humour with some tougher realities, the play captures life at the coal face, in the pit village, on the donkeys and by the fireside. The play aches with the ups and down of ordinary family life – hilarious and touching, political and angry. Jack and Liz are a working class couple who don’t ask for much, and who are learning to live with what little they have.
Published a year after Godber's September in the Rain, we once again meet Liz and Jack, presenting small, lovingly detailed extracts from their lives, from their early courtship days, through to their retirement, but not in chronological order, so we constantly weave a path through their long life together.
Balancing humour with some tougher realities, the play captures life at the coal face, in the pit village, on the donkeys and by the fireside. The play aches with the ups and down of ordinary family life – hilarious and touching, political and angry. Jack and Liz are a working class couple who don’t ask for much, and who are learning to live with what little they have.