Meet the writer...ALAN SPENCE

                   What audiences said about the play:                             "I'd like to thank the cast of actors for portraying  the                                experience of young people’s lives.  It was very good."                                                       "This production has some important key messages                               and  the cast are an amazing group of people." "Wonderful way of getting information  in an easily accessible way! Don't miss  this opportunity to see an exciting new play  with an important ...

“With your plays, it’s not just about the football and the Steel Strike, it’s all about us. It’s about our lives, how we live”.                                   Kay and Tom , Drake the Bookshop signing.   “If you want to know what life was like for an ordinary working-class family on Tees-side, during the steel strike of 1980, you can do no better than buy Nowt Like This in America, a superb Community Play written by Alan Spence. Thoughtful, funny, emotionally powerful, it follows the fortunes of one family, the personal being framed by the political. As an added bonus, the script is contextualised by both background material on the author and the period (heartfelt and honest) as well as production notes".                                                      ...