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The Slab Boys is partly autobiography and reflects John Byrne's upbringing, family and early working life. The play reflects issues of youth rebellion, social class and Americanisation from the 1950s.
16 apr 2015 · “The Slab Boys” is the first and most substantial play in John Byrne’s trilogy. Set in 1957 in Glasgow it has been claimed as a landmark in the Scottish theatre of the last century. It was subsequently filmed but met with no great success in that medium.
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The Slab Boys Trilogy. Paperback – 20 Nov. 2003. Spanning the 1950s to the 70s, the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean, Elvis, sharp-suited glamour, hope and despair. John Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre: the scams, the dreams, the aloof but ...
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20 nov 2003 · Now considered one of Scotland's defining literary works of the twentieth century, the Slab Boys Trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland, then Britain, and then Broadway quickly by storm. The Traverse revived the Slab Boys Trilogy for the theatre's fortieth anniversary in November 2003.
20 nov 2003 · “The Slab Boys” is the first and most substantial play in John Byrne’s trilogy. Set in 1957 in Glasgow it has been claimed as a landmark in the Scottish theatre of the last century. It was subsequently filmed but met with no great success in that medium.
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- John Byrne
In Glasgow in 1957, the slab boys apply themselves with gusto to everything but their job - working in a carpet factory. Each has their own aspirations, but the path to fulfillment is cluttered with obstacles, and soon emotions are running at fever pitch.
24 lug 2023 · The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by Byrne, which tell the story of a group of young, working-class Scots during the period from 1957-1972 in the slab room of a fictional carpet manufacturer in Paisley. The company was inspired by Stoddard’s carpet factory in Elderslie, near Paisley, where Byrne worked as both a slab boy and later ...
