Sacred and profane, trivial and profound blissfully combine in this irresistible, Olivier Award-winning tale of choirgirls gone wild. Lee Hall, of Billy Elliot fame, adapts Alan Warner’s 1998 novel with a similarly shrewd grasp of youthful hope amidst challenging circumstances, and with the arts once again proving a vital escape – albeit, in this case, temporarily.
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This is great. Fair but brilliant. xxx
On 16 May 2017 at 09:12, MARIANKA SWAIN ~ WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW wrote:
> mkmswain posted: “Sacred and profane, trivial and profound blissfully > combine in this irresistible, Olivier Award-winning tale of choirgirls gone > wild. Lee Hall, of Billy Elliot fame, adapts Alan Warner’s 1998 novel with > a similarly shrewd grasp of youthful hope amidst cha” >