York Theatre Royal
Royal patent playhouse on an old hospital site, home to a stage company since Georgian times.
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About this audio guide
This guide to York Theatre Royal follows the working life of a Georgian touring company, run from this site by the actor-manager Tate Wilkinson. It centres on the summer of seventeen eighty-two, when a young Irish actress with a complicated past arrived in Leeds looking for a job. Along the way come wages, contracts, jealous colleagues and the circuit of Yorkshire towns the actors played in turn.
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