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Dateline:
14th September, 2003
News from the North East
Tom Hadaway Festival
The North East's leading playwright Tom Hadaway, who this year reached
his 80th birthday, is to be celebrated in a month long festival, which
opens on 3rd and continues until 30th October. It will be preceded by
a Tyne Tees Television programme, Hadaway in Conversation, on
Sunday 28th September at 2.00 pm.
Hadaway was brought up on the Ridges Estate in North Shields (now the
notorious Meadowell) and worked on the North Shields Fish Quay. It was
not until he was forty that he started writing. Most of his plays were
premiered by Newcastle's Live Theatre and the BBC have broadcast eight
of his television plays, including two of the Play for Today
series, God Bless Thee, Jacky Maddison (1974) and The Happy
Hunting Ground (1976). He also wrote one of the episodes of series
When the Boat Comes In.
The festival includes showings of all his film and some of his television
work, as well as productions of many of his plays by amateur and professional
companies in the region. The programme consists of:
The Filletting Machine
Bruvvers Theatre Company
Cluny Warehouse - 5th October
The Cumberland, Byker - 11th
Magnesia Bank, North Shields - 21st
University of Sunderland - 23rd
Buddle Arts centre, wallsend - 25th
Amber Films Side Cafe, Newcastle - 30th
Hadaway, The Making of a Writer
A biographical play by Valerie Laws
Cloud Nine (amateur production)
Saville Exchange, North Shields - 27th to 30th
The Pigeon Man and God Bless Thee, Jacky Maddison
Customs House, South Shields - 7th to 11th
You'll never Hook a Haddock with a Pen Nib
A celebration of his life, with extracts from many of his plays
Live Theatre, Newcastle - 15th to 19th
It's a Fish-Eat-Fish World
A performance inspired by the Tyne and, in particular, the Fish Quay
Marden High School (school production) - 16th
Long Shadows
People's Theatre, Newcastle (amateur production) - 21st to 25
The Long Line
Tynemouth Priory Theatre (amateur production) - 23rd to 25th
Let the Child Sing and Fair Dos
Stage Focus Theatre Company
The Bay Horse, Stanfordham - 3rd
The Knott Memorial Hall, Heddon-on-the-Wall - 4th
Magnesia Bank, North Shields - 9th
Buddle Arts centre, Wallsend - 11th
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead - 24th
Washington Arts Centre - 29th
There will be screenings of his film and TV work at the Tyneside Cinema,
Newcastle on
6th October - When the Boat Comes In; Lady Irene; May
Blossoms; Impressions: The Porpoise
12th, 19th and 26th - Billy Wilson, Big Fish; East by North
East
13th and 27th - Justice: Uncle Sangi
20th - God Bless Thee, Jacky Maddison; Happy Hunting Ground
More details are available by phoning the Festival Hotline at 0191
296 0298
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