Bad City Flyer (Front)
A challenge to the received ideas about homeless people and homelessness. It is 1987 and the setting Inner London. Young single people, many new to the city, often find themselves with no job, little money, no home. Glad, Anna, Jeanette and Greta try to find solutions to problems which often seem insurmountable. Above all, where to sleep?
‘…..this is Britain, not Little House on the Prairie…’
You can access the script of this play via the British Library’s MPS Modern Playscripts Collection.
Nick Stafford was Writer-in-Residence at Half Moon Theatre’s young people’s company in the mid-1980s. He talks about the development of his play about homelessness, Bad City and how the creative team slept rough on London’s South Bank, as part of the research. Interviewed by Toni Tsaera.
Norman Goodman talk’s about Nick Stafford‘s Bad City and how it dealt with the issue of homelessness at the time when Canary Wharf was being built and the wealth that involved was cheek by jowl with high deprivation. Interviewed by Beccy Allen.
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