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June Evening

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  8w, 5m

Set in Holdsworth Street, Bolton in 1921, we watch the Street's inhabitants argue, love and gossip the evening away.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    8w, 5m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

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Summary

Bill Naughton (1910 - 1992) is a key figure in post WWII English literary life.  His best known works are Alfie and Spring and Port Wine.

June Evening was originally a radio play, broadcast in 1958.  It was televised in July 1960 and proved very influential, causing a sensation as one of the first 'kitchen sink' TV plays, nine months before Coronation Street was first aired. Naughton contended that Granada lifted his idea, the story being set around one Lancashire Street with a corner shop.  Set in Holdsworth Street, Bolton in 1921, we watch the Street's inhabitants argue, love and gossip the evening away.

  • Time Period 1960s
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Bill Naughton

The Irish-born but British-bred Naughton (1910-1992) was a key figure in postwar English literature, one of the earliest of the kitchen sink school of writers, and he was an incredibly prolific producer of everything from short stories to screenplays to diaries. Bill Naughto ...
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