“ 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. An added bonus, the script is contextualised by both background material on the author and the period (heartfelt and honest) and production notes'. Brian McAvera Playwright and Art Critic. “With your plays, it’s ...