A play with music.
In September 1961 Vivian Nicholson won £152,319 and eight shillings on Littlewoods Pools. She bought a gleaming new Chevrolet, houses, holidays and booze. Spend, Spend, Spend is Viv’s story; an everyday story of Castleford folk… who win the pools.
You can access the script of this play via the British Library’s MPS Modern Playscripts Collection.
Dawn Austwick was the Theatre Manager at Half Moon Theatre in the 1980s. She remembers the production Spend, Spend, Spend very clearly and fondly. Interviewed by Toni Tsaera.
Regular audience member in the 1980s, Jacci Todd remembers the promenade production of Spend, Spend, Spend. Interviewed by Toni Tsaera.
The Mint Julips are a female acapella group who came out of one of the youth theatres at Half Moon Theatre on Mile End Road in the 1980s. Three of the members – Debbie Longworth, Debbie Charles and Lizzie Charles – talk about Spend, Spend, Spend. Interviewed by Rosie Vincent.