Tinned Up - NeverBeenSeen

Synopsis

Shirley Parkin has lived at number ten Brook Street, Langworthy, all her life - and she isn’t going anywhere. A spirited sixty-three-year-old spinster, she has defied the council for years, refusing to move out of her modest two-up-two-down terrace. Beryl, a foul-mouthed friend, Joy, an unhappy single mother and Daz, a thirty-year-old stoner have been campaigning alongside Shirley to keep their local park from the cold grasp of profit-hungry developers.

Our Review:

1 July 2011

The old adage that there’s no place like home is proved true in Tinned Up, part of the In Development with the Lowry series. The reason being is that it follows Shirley Parkin, a 63-year-old single who has lived in a small house in the Langworthy district of Salford for 44 years and she has no plans to move. The other houses are tinned up but Shirley’s is a sparkling display of house-pride.

Regeneration is a word beloved of planners but not by people like Shirley and her pals who are also fighting to keep open the local park. Her disparate, eccentric set of friends with problems of their own, are true to life as their common aim draws them together.

This amusing yet poignant play by Shred productions is a credit to writer Chris Hoyle as well as the six actors. The narrative creeps up on the audience as slowly we learn the real reason why Shirley clings on so hard to her house.

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