Synopsis
Rita Sue and Bob Too & A State Affair
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Published by Methuen
When it first came out, Rita Sue and Bob Too caused a sensation for it's frank portrayal of child sexuality in a Northern Town; the fact that the play was based on the writer's own experience only added to the furore
Max Stafford-Clark originally commissioned Rita, Sue and Bob Too for the Royal Court in 1982. Eighteen years later, he returned with a group of Out of Joint actors to the Bradford estates that Andrea knew. A State Affair is a record of what they found
"A genius straight from the slums" - Shelagh Delaney (on Andrea Dunbar) ~ Mail on Sunday
"This is life, the facts are there ... these things do go on - maybe not in every circle, but certainly in mine" ~ Andrea Dunbar, Yorkshire Post, 1986