Review of WELFARE a new play
Ivan Stott (Bingo Bob) Welfare play at Derby Theatre, Oct 2024 Photograph by Pamela Raith 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Welfare is a new, full length play by Derby born writer, Abi Zakarian. As one might quite rightly anticipate the subject and topics of the play are down-to-earth and this wonderful, stylised interpretation for stage; directed by Sarah Brigham the CEO and Artistic Director at Derby Theatre, complements Zakarian's script and intention. Five generations of one family are tracked through almost a century long. Welfare is a history play and presents 'within these walls' stories of life at a holiday camp on the seafront at Winthorpe, Skegness and how the wider political world impacted on this one place and the people who frequented it. Welfare falls under a within living memory category and as well as a history play is also a memory play. By chance, Bob (Bingo Bob) meets young, Kat, and it is Bob's personal memories and his knowledge of the history of the camp, twinned with
