Despite all appearances to the contrary, Jim Cartwright's 1992 play, written for actress Jane Horrocks, is not a showbiz spectacular.
Nor was it ever meant to be, not even with a cast drawn from cabaret, comedy and popular TV and theatre circuits as they are in Cartwright's own touring revival.
Rather, this close-up of a shy young girl finding salvation through song is more of a feel-good flip-side to Road, Cartwright's debut, which arrived six years earlier, like a template for Shameless, in the thick of Thatcherism.
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