... eighties. In his play Real Dreams, adapted from a story by Jeremy Pikser, Trevor Griffiths takes a rueful look back to Independence Day, 1969, and a bunch of college kids attempting to bring the revolution to Cleveland, Ohio. Working under the orders ...

... company consisted of a committee of seven self-styled actor managers who organised a fund-raising gala for July 4, American Independence Day. Those organisers dedicated to keeping the costs down discovered that others had run up massive print and publicity bills ...

... their own road movie. The whole of the action takes place in the garage at Jim's home in Hull on a sweltering American Independence Day to the accompa niment of loud music on an old juke box. There's a fridge in the background contain ing dozens of bottles ...

... still emerge with hope for the future, is compelling theatre. The setting is mid-seventies, Mid- West America over the Independence Day holiday, as friends and family gather at the farmhouse home of a disillusioned teacher who has lost both his legs in ...