In the Midnight Hour The Young Vic It you've ever wondered what Wigan had in common with Detroit, and why a generation of Northern white working class teenagers fell in love with soul music, then this play provides an insight into Northern Soul Set in a dance hall in the sixties, this musical focuses on the hopes and dreams of a group of young people foi whom soul is a means of es cape from the monotony of everyday life.
'In love, in the dark, for a couple of hours you can forget about the factory and the vet bus stop on a Monday morning • of the world Roxy, to her plains woman naive Catholic friend Rita.
The dance hall is, according to philosophical Jane Austen-reading cloakroom attendant Beattie, a 'palace of dreams'. A place where once a week building labourers become cool soul men and factory girls can dream of a better life.
But reality has a nasty habit of intruding. Roxy, Rita and the other young women who regularly turn up in search of the man of their dreams, instead find themselyes competins for the arrec tions of a bunch of lads whose idea of a chat-up line is T'd like to give you one.
So Roxy sings 'finding a good man is like looking for a needle is a haystack' And what hope is there ero tale youve with ox La love with Roxy ana attempos to lure ner away from bad guy Creech,