RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey is joined again by Vidar Hjardeng MBE, Inclusion and Diversity Consultant for ITV News across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands for the next in his regular Connect Radio theatre reviews.

This week we join Vidar in the pub where the heroes are local and the locals are all heroes as Isobel McArthur redefines Thomas Heywood’s Elizabethan romp The Fair Maid of The West at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon on Saturday 6 January at 1.30pm with description by Professional Audio Describers Julia Grundy and Ellie Packer.

About The Fair Maid of theWest:

Liz Bridges might seem ordinary, but it turns out that a life spent lending ears, mending hearts and serving beers has all been in preparation for the ultimate test of her character... A good landlady pacifies the vexed, enlightens the perplexed, and always knows who's next. Who knew that breaking up bar brawls would be such good training for international diplomacy?

 

Join us at the pub – where the heroes are local and the locals are all heroes – in this celebratory, music-filled, ensemble comedy about the life-saving powers of community, compromise and compassion. Especially in those moments when all our happy hours seem to be behind us.

 

Thomas Heywood’s Elizabethan romp The Fair Maid of the West featured in the Swan Theatre’s opening season in 1986. Now it is redefined by Isobel McArthur (Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)) in this dynamic, open-armed adaptation for 2023.

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