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The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. My Mum had an old Golden Virginia Tobacco tin filled with words written in block capitals on tiny squares of paper. Barr's depiction is so pungent, so earth-shattering it's a universal story of alienation – one for anyone who's ever felt desperate to escape. And thanks, Mum, for taking us to Pride as a family and me finding out which teachers from my church school were gay, seeing one in his favourite dark stonewashed jeans and Doc Martins but up top a leather harness over his pasty white chest. Then his face dropped just as fast as he shyly wiped away the tears he hadn’t expected, his chin quivering as he whispered, “I wished I had a mum like yours”.

I am a huge fan of Damian Barr's The Literary Salon podcast (link below) and have been looking forward to this book for ages. This new production from National Theatre of Scotland premieres at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in May 2024 before touring to Inverness, Perth, Cumbernauld, Dundee and Edinburgh. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. He said: “When the book came out, I wrote it from a place of thinking about the long arc of justice and things getting better.

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Further still, there remains alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and addiction and depression issues that far outweigh the local area. A gifted storyteller, weaving skilfully back and forth through time, and his unfussy prose flows delightfully. This book focuses quite acutely on the subjective misery of Barr growing up; a broken home and a struggle to admit his homosexuality in a changing Britain. Watching a woman in her forties go from disgraced Catholic dropout to all black and grey wearing feminist fag hag with three degrees.

Relaxed performances are for all audience members who would benefit from a more relaxed theatre environment, including (but not limited to) neurodivergent people, people with a learning disability and parents with very young children. Worried he's not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp.

The partnership will bring to life a unique Food Foraging Experience, set to be developed and piloted in the coming months. I’m a huge fan of James Ley’s plays and especially what they say about identity - writing with him has been a joy and I’ve learned so much about making the shift from page to stage. Overall a wonderful book to begin the year with , all of approximately 250 pages so was a relatively quick and engaging read for me.Barr's handling of his bravely chosen material - the conjoined shames of British and Afrikaaner history - is deft and the results will haunt you. Funny, wise and uplifting, Damian Barr's beautifully written memoir captures the harsh reality of Scottish life under the rule of Empress Thatcher. A father, with a keen work ethic and full of love suffering a severe dent to his confidence leading to depression (I presume) but too hardy and proud to let it defeat him.