Details

Up in the Yorkshire mining towns of 1960s Britain, a little hope was a dangerous thing. Social disintegration and disenchantment taught you to accept your lot; or else get the spirit kicked out of you. Yes, back then, life was certainly grim up North... Especially for our hero; streetwise school-kid Billy Casper. Emotionally neglected - bullied at school and at home - his is a pretty bleak existence; smoking, cadging money and getting into scraps...Until, that is, Kes comes along. Kes is a kestrel that Billy rears and trains; Kes is hope. Together, their friendship shines amid the gloom; but how long can it last...?

Cast/Performers

Mike Burnside, Daniel Casey, David Crellin, Katherine Dow Blyton, Oliver Farnworth, Dominic Gately, Peter McGovern, Stefan Butler, Sue Vincent, Oliver Watton

Creatives/Company

Book by: Barry Hines (A Kestrel for a Knave)
Producer(s): Jenny King (for The Touring Consortium, Liverpool Playhouse
Director: Nikolai Foster
Design: Matthew Wright
Lighting: Guy Hoare
Sound: Marcus Christensen
Music: Tom Deering