Book Description
This volume comprises three recent plays by Sheffield playwrights, all of them, in very different ways, using the northern industrial city as their location. The plays-one for the stage, one for radio and one for television-show the city in the past, present and future. Howard Russell's Pawnbroker Hocks the Moon (Metro Theatre, 1986) is set in the Sheffield of the 1930s and tells a story of changing personal loyalties and friendships against the background of a steel industry gearing itself up for war. Dave Sheasby's Welcome to the Times (BBC Radio 4, 1986) is a present-day political thriller about corruption-and integrity. In Threads (BBC 2, 1984), Barry Hines, award-winning author of Kes, has produced one of the most powerful and disturbing television plays of recent years-a chilling account set in Sheffield of the probable effects of a nuclear strike in the near future.
