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‘There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That’s what I believe.’ – Alan Lane

A deeply moving memoir of how a theatre company took over the management of the UK’s oldest surviving working men’s club in the UK and battled bureaucracy, resistance from naysayers, and a global lock-down to galvanise the community during the Covid pandemic, running a non-means tested self-referral foodbank that delivered 15,202 food parcels to people in need. Tales of innovative open-air performances, heart-breaking personal stories and uplifting insight from an artistic director whose philosophy is ‘everyone gets what they want, but no one can stand in the way of anyone getting what they want.’

This is the vivid story of the cost of trying to do good in a divided world. The Club on the Edge of Town shares tales from a culture war in the first months of Brexit, of a community struggling through a health catastrophe and what a theatre company can do offstage and on.

‘I absolutely love this book. Read it!’ Lemn Sissay

‘Direct, honest and completely compelling; Alan’s story is more than just a memoir of the pandemic, it’s a manifesto on how to make the world a better place. It’s the story of two worlds thrown together in the toughest of circumstances, trying to love, help and understand each other. What could be more relevant to our times!’  Sophie Willan

‘I’ve never met Alan Lane, but I get the impression from his social media that he’s not a man to flinch. So it wasn’t a surprise that this memoir of a pandemic year, like his responses to the challenges it threw up, is both unflinching and uncompromising. He brings humour and humanity to the stories he tells and is simultaneously realistic about how things are and visionary about how they could be. The pandemic exposed the vast divides between those who have and those who don’t, but Alan and Slung Low decided to tell a different story, and then to do whatever they could to make it true. At times challenging, yet always inspiring, The Club on the Edge of Town captures that story: the best of us, in the worst of times.’ Baroness Deborah Bull

‘This is an amazing story of remarkable people doing their very best in an unprecedented time for the world. This book demands that revise our ideas about what theatre companies are for, what community art can be, and what people really need to live a full and productive life. Read this and be challenged and uplifted!’ Ian McMillan

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paperback

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216 x 138 mm

ISBN

9781914228414

Publication date

07 April 2022

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