How Billy Elliot writer is bringing theatre to the community
He's used to his plays opening on Broadway or the West End, but Lee Hall's latest production is playing in a church in a former mining village in County Durham, just up the road from where his award-winning film Billy Elliot was set.
Hall's new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's anti-war classic 'Mother Courage and Her Children', is the first production by one of Britain's most unlikely theatre companies.
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