> An audience member quit a performance of a Shakespeare play in York because it featured Yorkshire accents, theatre staff have said.
The theatre company has found a good way to turn it into a marketing oppunuity though.
The “audience member quit a performance” would have been really annoyed at a Brummie accent from the 1500s and 1600s then.
Why the hell is this considered news?
What’s next? “Old man yells at cloud”?
The theatre company that do this, Northern Broadsides are well known for it. It’s what they do. They were started by a guy called Barry Rutter. I saw a performance of their Romeo And Juliet once outside of Leeds.
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> An audience member quit a performance of a Shakespeare play in York because it featured Yorkshire accents, theatre staff have said.
The theatre company has found a good way to turn it into a marketing oppunuity though.
The “audience member quit a performance” would have been really annoyed at a Brummie accent from the 1500s and 1600s then.
Why the hell is this considered news?
What’s next? “Old man yells at cloud”?
The theatre company that do this, Northern Broadsides are well known for it. It’s what they do. They were started by a guy called Barry Rutter. I saw a performance of their Romeo And Juliet once outside of Leeds.