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He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin' Heart. Byrne is also a painter, printmaker and theatre designer.
The slab boys are teen age factory workers entrapped by Scotland's rigid social and economic structure. Their narrow dream is to graduate to a desk job or, in rare cases, to break away into the world of art and design. Using humor as his primary instrument, the author skillfully conveys the frustrations of disengaged young people in this comic ...
Slab Boys (Original, Play, Broadway) opened in New York City Mar 7, 1983 and played through Apr 17, 1983.
The Slab Boys. An aspiring artist (Robin Laing), a dreamer (Russell Barr) and a geek work in a carpet factory's paint-mixing division in 1957 Scotland.
16 de abr. de 2015 · The Slab Boys Trilogy. Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair. John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but gorgeous girl, the despair of life ...
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Phil, Spanky and Hector are young lads working in a Paisley carpet factory as 'slab boys'. They should be grinding up powder for the paint slabs, but they prefer to do as little work as they can and smoke as much as possible. Young, sharp and bored, they discuss their aspirations. Phil dreams of a place at Glasgow Art School, while Spanky wants ...
