Morrissey and Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr have given permission for a new play, Still Ill, to use "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" in a new drama that involves gay paramilitaries and gives an assessment of Ulster ten years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Written by award-winning Levenshulme playwright Billy Cowan and directed by Kenneth Branagh’s younger sister Joyce, this tragic love story between ‘the jumped up pantry boy’ and the ‘boy with the thorn in his side’ comes to the north west this month.
In 2010, the play won the International Playwriting Award run by Warehouse Theatre in Croydon and it also received a Special Commendation at the Verity Bargate Award.
It’s at:
- The Lowry, Salford November 14 to 15
- The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool November 21 to 22
- Oldham Coliseum November 25