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Northern Broadsides HARD TIMES Review: The cold, dark world of Coketown is interrupted by the colour and vibrancy of Sleary’s Circus in Deborah McAndrew's warm and witty adaption

Howard Chadwick and Andrew Price in Northern Broadsides' HARD TIMES.

Howard Chadwick and Andrew Price in Northern Broadsides adaption of HARD TIMES. Photo: Nobby Clark

The warmth and camaraderie of the circus becomes the antidote to the cold, unfeeling world of Coketown in Northern Broadsides adaption of Charles Dickens’ HARD TIMES

With a title like HARD TIMES, it’s easy to mistake Charles Dickens’ novel of repression and longing as being a bit grim but behind this sweeping tale of supressed love, seduction and social mores is a story full of colour, life and m...

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