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Love on the Dole
Various venues, Salford
5/5
THIS promenade production in five different locations — three of them in an unseasonal but appropriate Salford downpour — opens in an old Salford mill.
What follows is a first-class interpretation of Walter Greenwood’s classic account of a community blighted by unemployment in the 1930s.
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