Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall’s Billy Liar, firstly a book, then a play, a film and a musical, is a classic production which resonates with every generation of youth that tries to escape its humdrum existence.
Young Billy Fisher fantasises about leaving his Yorkshire home, his straight-laced parents and his dementia-suffering grandmother to live the big city life in London. His Walter Mitty type dreams separate him from the reality of his job as an undertaker’s clerk, where he works with his best mate Arthur. He has somehow promised to marry two different girls and continually makes up extraordinary lies to cover his haphazard life. Given the chance to change his luck, what future will he choose? Can he break away and ‘live the dream’?
Performances have been postponed, due to the corona virus outbreak. Performance dates will be posted and circulated in due course.