A RAODS Green Room Production

While Jack and liz sit waiting for the bus home, they take us on a journey of sweet and sad memories of their annual holidays to Blackpool

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September in the Rain is an evocation of a lost working-class way of life, with something a little darker below the surface. The play follows the life and holiday of Liz and Jack, John Godber’s own grandparents, based on the stories they told at length, over and over again.

Jack is a miner down the pits in Yorkshire, Liz his long-suffering faithful wife. The pits close for a week in September, so every year they holiday in Blackpool in a cheap, grubby, backstreet guesthouse – September being an ideal month for a week in Blackpool! The play tells their story, from the present and the past. We see them on their holidays and hear them narrate their tales, meeting some of the characters they encounter along the rocky road.