There Are No Beginnings (NHB Modern Plays)

By Charley Miles

This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper.
It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room.
Between the years of 1975 and 1980, the women of Leeds lived in fear. With no clue as to who was responsible for the sustained attacks and murders across the city, the authorities urged women to stay at home. From the fear and fury, a steadfast solidarity arose, birthing the Reclaim the Night movement and echoing down the generations to this day.
Charley Miles's play There Are No Beginnings was premiered at Leeds Playhouse in October 2019, in a production featuring Julie Hesmondhalgh.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Nov 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781788502702

Charley Miles

Charley Miles’ debut play, Blackthorn, premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in September 2016. Blackthorn was a 2016-2017 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Spilt was commissioned by the Royal Court and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was performed in Cardiff and at the Gate Theatre London in 2018. Charley was Channel 4 Writer in Residence at Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is Paines Plough Fellow, 2018. Charley is from Kilburn, North Yorkshire.

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