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The Flannelettes

The Flannelettes

Paperback

Series: Modern Plays

Plays

ISBN10: 1474259634
ISBN13: 9781474259637
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 3 2015
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

She could teach more folk round 'ere about what's bloody well important in their lives - when it comes down to it. What matters . . . That precious bit of you that gets buried in shit, and she's there clearin' it all away.

Delie is special and she's won a trophy for picking up litter from the mayor. Every summer she goes on her holidays to her Aunty Brenda who runs a women's domestic abuse refuge in a Yorkshire mining village. Delie and her Aunty Brenda and a pawnbroker called George who wears a dress are The Flannelettes - a Motown tribute band.

Delie is in her twenties but with a mental age of ten; when she meets Roma - who used to live on the streets in Rotherham - the two become best friends, sharing each others' secrets.

By the award-winning writer of The Glee Club, The Flanelettes is a tough, uncompromising play which looks at love and violence in a shattered community, all playing to a bittersweet soundtrack of Sixties soul.

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