Brassed Off review " miners' music brings film to life on stage
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe Penrith town band bring warmth and plangency to an adaptation of the post-Thatcher movie, alive with movement and community spirit Around the end of the 1990s, three popular movies about the ravages of Thatcherism on working-class communities all featured characters finding solace in culture. In Billy Elliot, it was an escape through dance. In The Full Monty, it was nightclub stripping…