Staging Life

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"In 1907 Annie Horniman arrived in Manchester from Ireland intent on establishing the country's first genuine 'repertory' company. A middle-aged heiress with money to spend on the arts, she bought the run-down Gaiety Theatre in Peter Street, renovated it, recruited the gifted Iden Payne as manager and challenged the people of Lancashire to produce new and exciting work to rival that of Ireland's Celtic Twilight. The Gaiety soon became the most progressive theatre in the country, the first of its kind to create an identifiably local school of playwrighting while simultaneously attracting a new audience excited by seeing real life characters in real life situations presented on stage ... Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes shocked Edwardian sensibilities. Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice delighted British and American audiences. Allan Monkhouse's The Conquering Hero brought the horror of the trenches to the serious stage for the first time."--Publisher's website