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New Dawn Fades City Varieties, Leeds/Touring
JOY Division are as synonymous with Manchester as rain and Coronation Street. So it makes sense for any play about the influential band to feature the city as a secondary character.
But in New Dawn Fades writer Brian Gorman pays more attention to it than to the legendary outfit, dedicating more time to to local luminaries Friedrich Engels, John Dee and Roman general Julius Agricola in the first act than to the group.
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