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INCREASINGLY creating their own work, young writers, actors and directors are not afraid to tackle some hefty stories based on real life.
Bringing alive radical history and recalling the lives of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things is the mission of small companies such as Townsend Productions with their play Dare Devil Rides to Jarama and, pre-lockdown, acapella group The Young ’Uns were touring The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff.
Both pieces focus on a febrile time and complex events, when the Spanish civil war broke out in the summer of 1936.
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