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The anti-cuts film Big Society The Musical, set in Liverpool, is about to get its premiere. Its director LYNNE HARWOOD explains why and how it was made
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
In the the summer of 2010 David Cameron came to Liverpool to make his speech about the “big society,” as the city was to be one of the places where the idea would be launched.
At the First Take film production company where I work, as in many community and arts organisations throughout the city, we were bemused.
Isn’t this how we’d been living and working all these years? In the community? Making a difference? But then, if the government was supporting this ethos, surely it was a good thing? Surely it would mean more funding to enable the work we and others do to thrive?
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