Video: Brookside’s Billy Corkhill is Brassed Off in York
THIRTY years after the miners’ strike of 1984 York Theatre Royal is reviving the iconic film and stage production of Brassed Off.
Set in 1992, Grimley Colliery faces the threat of closure and the future of the brass band seems uncertain. With the miners torn between redundancy packages and the picket lines, band-leader Danny’s hopes of winning the national brass band competition seems like a distant dream.
Danny, played by Liverpool actor John McArdle - best known as Brookside’s Billy Corkhill - has to conduct a colliery brass band fighting its way to the finals of a national competition at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The show runs from Friday 14 February to Saturday 1 March, 2014
Click on the video button to see an interview with John McArdle and other cast members