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Following another huge successful Rewind last year, we are thrilled to announce Rewind is back for 2024 bringing the 80's and beyond to Scone Palace this summer!

There have been days when it’s felt like a kind of therapy, but there have definitely been days when I have thought ‘I just can’t do this’. Destroying the livelihood of the people surrounding Damian, reducing benefits of the poor and blaming them for being poor, clause 28 etc and on the other side inspiring a young boy to work hard and become successful. If you’d like a signed copy, please get in touch via my Contact page and I’ll send you a signed bookplate. Barr's style is conversational, intimate and convincing, and he resists every opportunity to show off.Fishnet – written by award-winning journalist Kirstin Innes, has been optioned for development as a serial for television. I found it sometimes very uncomfortable to read with many acts of domestic violence, child abuse, bullying, homophobia and just sheer heartache.

He said: “When the book came out, I wrote it from a place of thinking about the long arc of justice and things getting better. Damian Barr gives a warm but grueling account of what it meant to grow up gay in the decaying industrial cities of the north during the rule of Margaret Thatcher. Yet a warm, loving and intelligent child who deeply cares and is protective of his mum and sister Teenie. What distinguishes this autobiography from others is the skill of its prose and its celebration of the teachers who stepped forward to help as much as they could and outsider of intelligence, sensitivity and love.Barr nails the voice; of course he does, it's a memoir, but not for a moment did I feel I was being told a story. Damien's childhood is an amalgamation of abuse, struggle, love, friendship, survival and ultimately triumphant, coming out in a straight world.

Dog owners making an environmental New Year Resolution have boosted the ranks of the “PAWS ON PLASTIC’ campaign to 25,000. Relaxed performances are for all audience members who would benefit from a more relaxed theatre environment, including (but not limited to) neurodivergent people, people with a learning disability and parents with very young children. His childhood, evoked with such cheek-biting tenderness, now seems more real and more Technicolor than my own. In 2023, I moved to Canongate Books on a two-book deal and that feels like a very special sort of homecoming.As gripping as a thriller, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, this book will resonate long after you finish it. Audience members can move around freely, leave and enter the auditorium as needed, the lights will stay on low and sound effects are softened. Such vivid and precise descriptions, especially of smell, ensure that the reader is there, in Damian's world, and as he can remember and express his feelings so well, I was completely transported into his world, and am very sad to have left it, even though it certainly was not a happy one. I do think that we still live in a culture that wants to look away from things that are painful, whether that is poverty, abuse, sectarianism and homophobia, which are all big themes of the play. Growing up as a gay child, in abusive home after abusive home, he manages to convey his emotions and the fear at the time without ever descending into self pity or self obsession.

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