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The Big Bookend Event Spotlight: Playing The Joker opens the Big Bookend festival 2014
Anthony Clavane’s play about legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring, Playing The Joker is to open The Big Bookend festival with two very special performances at the Queens Hotel, Leeds (Waring’s unofficial headquarters) on Sunday 11 May. Written by award-winning author and … Continue reading →
Posted in BBE 2014, Big Bookend Spotlight, Leeds Writers
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Tagged Anthony Clavane, Big Bookend, Dicken Ashworth, Eddie Gray, Eddie Waring, Fiona Gell, Gary Hetherington, Leeds, Paul Fox, Phil Caplan, Playing the Joker, Queens Hotel, Red Ladder Theatre, Ronnie Teeman, Tony Collins, West Yorkshire Playhouse
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Talking To – Anthony Clavane, author, playwright and journalist
By Paul Whittle Leeds writer Anthony Clavane’s first book, Promised Land, interwove the history of his native city, and his love of its football team, with an autobiographical account of the author’s own upbringing in Leeds’ Jewish community. His next, … Continue reading →
Playing the Joker by Anthony Clavane
Leeds author, Anthony Clavane examines Eddie Waring, Rugby League, Yorkshireness, revenge, revolution, betrayal and why trilby hats went out of fashion in his latest play, Playing the Joker, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 19th-23rd November. At the end of 1977, … Continue reading →
Posted in Leeds Writers
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Tagged Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bleasdale, Alice Nutter, Anthony Clavane, Arnold Wesker, Challenge Cup, Don Fox, Eddie Waring, England, Getin Price, James Brining, Leeds, Monty Python, Morecambe and Wise, My Generation, Pint and a Pie, Play, Playing the Joker, punk, Quarry Hill, Roundhay School, rugby league, Sweeney Todd, The Talking Trilby, They think it's all over, Trevor Griffiths, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Willy Russell
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