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Leeds Lads
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds
4/5
ONE of many plays to be staged in the lead up to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, Leeds Lads draws its considerable power from being a community-based production.
Co-written by Anthony Clavane and Nick Stimson, its cast enact scenes that could quite easily have been drawn from their own lives if they’d been born a couple of generations earlier.
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