Pitmen Painters comes to the Malvern Festival Theatre:
http://www.worcesterstandard.co.uk/2013 ... 66920.html
Pitmen Painters
- angelenroute
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Re: Pitmen Painters
I suppose that's the closest Lee Hall will come to Malverne, New York where I live. My town's name is named after the UK original with the e added for a difference. Still, I like this connection, cool! =)kport wrote:Pitmen Painters comes to the Malvern Festival Theatre:
http://www.worcesterstandard.co.uk/2013 ... 66920.html
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Re: Pitmen Painters
The last "Pitman Painter" Norman Cornish dies aged 94.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-28623350
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-28623350
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Re: Pitmen Painters
Here's an interesting article about Norman Cornish, mentioned above. According to this article, while he was a pitman and a painter, he wasn't actually part of the Ashington group, and didn't like being lumped in together with that group. Furthermore, he apparently wasn't all that happy with Lee Hall's play:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 52758.htmlHe didn't much care for Hall's play either, telling one interviewer: "There were some bits that made me feel that it was a bit of an insult to these lads – because they were the best kind of working people who wanted to be educated. There was nothing silly about them."
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