The playwright juggles satire and farce in a knockabout celebration of Hull's tenure as UK city of cultureSatire is one thing, farce another, and the two forms prove hard to reconcile in this new play by James Graham, marking Hull's highly successful year as UK city of culture. As a graduate of the local university and as a dramatist inspired by real events, Graham seems ideally equipped to write a state-of-the-cultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AM on January 31, 2018