Once a Year on Blackpool Sands
15 Jun — 16 Jun Theatre 2

SET in Blackpool 1953 not long after the Coronation, this real life true story is packed with gritty Northern comedy coupled with a heartbreaking emotional punch. Yorkshire miners, and secret lovers Eddy and Tommy, head to Blackpool with most of their Town for the annual Pit Close Wakes holiday. However, Eddy had almost missed the bus and turned up with no suitcase and covered in cuts and bruises.

The lads have checked into the, surprisingly empty, Withering Heights on Sea guest house run by the caustic, and alarmingly odd Gladys, her rebellious and very flirty daughter Maureen and the infamous Red Ethel, ex-communist stripper showgirl.

Upstairs, the only other guest, Mr Elbridge, is trying to muster the courage to unleash any of his three female alter egos and walk the fabled Transvestite walk from North to South Pier as a woman.

As events, both heartbreaking and hysterically funny, unfold, six lives will be changed forever. And Eddy reveals a shocking truth that will lead to a lifetime of activism in the fight for equality and freedom for the LGBTQ community.

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