Miserable Northern Play

Billy Dumps is the lead character in the "smash hit" new play, Star Amongst the Scrapheap' but the star starts to wonder if this play has been all that well-written. An unrelenting gloomy mining-town in the 1980s, with its entire population obsessively on strike, whose only chance at salvation is his participation in a talent show

Underscored by a needlessly tragic romantic sub plot, it all starts to seem like one of those cynically heartstring-tugging 'Miserable Northern Plays' written by people who've never been north of Oxford! With a new cliche and stereotype around every alley-ridden corner, will Billy be able to make it through this pretentious farce, and fight for a better play about the North?