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John Godber

November 2023

  • Martha Godber, Emilio Encinoso-Gil and Chloe McDonald in Do I Love You?

    Do I Love You? review – laughter and pain in John Godber’s northern soul comedy

    Three struggling twentysomethings find solace in dance in the writer-director’s well performed if not quite satisfying new work

September 2022

  • Shakers: Under New Management

    Shakers: Under New Management review – zero-hours Godber spikes the punch

    Jane Thornton and John Godber’s knockabout 1985 cocktail bar comedy is updated to the cost of living crisis era, with a downsized cast doing a valiant job of keeping the party going

May 2022

  • Martha Godber, Levi Payne and Purvi Parmar in Teechers Leavers 22 at Hull Truck theatre.

    Teechers Leavers 22 review – John Godber’s rowdy comedy graduates with honours

    Updated for the era of remote learning, Godber’s 1987 work is still joyously energetic and bitter about systemic inequalities

September 2021

  • Jane Thornton and John Godber in Sunny Side Up! at the Theatre Royal in Wakefield.

    Sunny Side Up! review – a tasty serving of class-conscious comedy

    Set in a northern seaside B&B, John Godber’s latest has a healthy dollop of political analysis beneath its very funny surface

September 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Candyman,Ray Harryhausen’s <br>Medusa model from Clash of the Titans; Artemisia Gentileschi’s David and Bathsheba; Wonder Woman 1984; Lazuli Sky

    From Blackpink to Bruce Nauman: your guide to autumn’s best culture

    The Guide’s writers and critics on this season’s best culture, including Tracey Emin, Candyman and the return of Kylie

August 2020

  • Returning to live theatre ... Jane Thornton and John Godber in Scary Bikers at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2019.

    'Canary in the coalmine': Scarborough's Stephen Joseph theatre reopens for autumn

    John Godber’s B&B drama – performed by the playwright, with his family – launches programme that includes one-woman Christmas show

April 2019

  • John Godber and Jane Thornton in Scary Bikers, written and directed by John Godber @ Trafalgar Studios (Opening 04-04-19)

    Scary Bikers review – John Godber saddles up for a bumpy Brexit ride

    In his funny and perceptive two-hander, Godber and his wife play a quarrelsome couple on a tandem trip to Europe

November 2016

  • 08 Rachael Abbey, Rob Angell and Josie Morley (c) Amy Charles Media

    This Might Hurt review – John Godber’s home truths on the nation’s health

    John Godber mines his own life for this tale of an NHS at breaking point

May 2015

  • shafted

    Shafted! review – a ‘post-mining’ drama with real emotional impact

    John Godber and his wife, Jane Thornton, convince in his powerful two-hander about a couple’s struggle with unemployment following the 1984 miners’ strike

July 2014

  • Shobna Gulati and Joe McGann in John Godber's April in Paris

    John Godber on April in Paris and the answer to our European problem

    John Godber: The Ukip era seemed time to revisit my play about xenophobic little Englanders and the transformative experience of travel

July 2013

  • Muddy Cows – review

    Women's rugby deserves better comedy than John Godber's inferior update of his 1984 Up'n'Under, says Alfred Hickling

April 2013

  • The Hull Truck theatre in Bradford

    The Northerner
    Hull Truck theatre returns to its roots

    New artistic director Mark Babych is determined to leave the experimental theatre company's troubles behind and reclaim its original sense of identity

July 2012

  • Lost and Found – review

    John Godber and John Thornton's seaside double-bill belong to each other like a bucket and spade, says Alfred Hickling

March 2012

  • Barbara Hepworth

    The Northerner
    John Godber and Jane Thornton add drama to the Hepworth Wakefield

  • Weekend Breaks – review

March 2011

  • The old Hull Truck theatre

    The Northerner
    John Godber swaps Hull for Wakefield

    Playwright's new work will be toured from Frank Matcham's Theatre Royal. Plus the Leeds Ladybird Menace, Appleby Horse Fair and a city built from Plasticine

August 2009

  • Abi Titmuss performs in Two-Way Mirror at the Courtyard theatre at the Theatre Museum in 2006

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: Abi Titmuss tackles John Godber play in Hull

    Paul Allen: Playwright keeps on truckin' with a 25th-anniversary revival of Up 'n' Under. Plus, who's in the running for the UK's first city of culture?

May 2009

  • Funny Turns: The new Truck rolls out in style

    Funny Turns is a not-quite play, almost musical that sometimes rocks but never rolls, says Clare Brennan

April 2009

  • Funny Turns at Hull Truck Theatre

    Funny Turns

  • Hull Truck's new theatre

    Theatre blog
    Northern lights: Hull Truck's new theatre plays the regeneration game

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