John Godber
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4 out of 5 stars.Set in a northern seaside B&B, John Godber’s latest has a healthy dollop of political analysis beneath its very funny surface
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The Guide’s writers and critics on this season’s best culture, including Tracey Emin, Candyman and the return of Kylie
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John Godber’s B&B drama – performed by the playwright, with his family – launches programme that includes one-woman Christmas show
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4 out of 5 stars.In his funny and perceptive two-hander, Godber and his wife play a quarrelsome couple on a tandem trip to Europe
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4 out of 5 stars.John Godber mines his own life for this tale of an NHS at breaking point
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4 out of 5 stars.John Godber and his wife, Jane Thornton, convince in his powerful two-hander about a couple’s struggle with unemployment following the 1984 miners’ strike
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John Godber: The Ukip era seemed time to revisit my play about xenophobic little Englanders and the transformative experience of travel
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Women's rugby deserves better comedy than John Godber's inferior update of his 1984 Up'n'Under, says Alfred Hickling
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New artistic director Mark Babych is determined to leave the experimental theatre company's troubles behind and reclaim its original sense of identity
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John Godber and John Thornton's seaside double-bill belong to each other like a bucket and spade, says Alfred Hickling
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Playwright's new work will be toured from Frank Matcham's Theatre Royal. Plus the Leeds Ladybird Menace, Appleby Horse Fair and a city built from Plasticine
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Paul Allen: Playwright keeps on truckin' with a 25th-anniversary revival of Up 'n' Under. Plus, who's in the running for the UK's first city of culture?
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Funny Turns is a not-quite play, almost musical that sometimes rocks but never rolls, says Clare Brennan
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3 out of 5 stars.
Hull Truck Theatre
Godber takes some outrageous narrative liberties but he has shown the potential of this dazzling new playhouse, writes Michael Billington -
Paul Allen: John Godber and Hull Truck have got a shiny new venue. But it was funded in the name of urban improvement, not for the good of theatre – and that's a real shame
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He packs in the punters, but professors have largely ignored John Godber – until now. David Ward meets the dramatist and a lecturer who has put plays such as Teechers on a new MA course
Teechers Leavers 22 review – John Godber’s rowdy comedy graduates with honours
4 out of 5 stars.