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Article: Arts Diary: Locals getting tougher at the Unity Theatre.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2002
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Byline: Philip Key
LIVERPOOL'S Unity Theatre remains the best venue in town to find good local dramas. And they seem to be tackling tougher subjects these days.
Tonight, the venue features the play Choices, dealing with Huntington's Disease, a degenerative condition that tragically attacks people in middle age.
And next week comes Exclusion Zone, dealing with the controversial subject of problem pupils.
Choices has been written by Liverpool actor Gerard Fitzpatrick Howkins who was first inspired by a television documentary in the 1980s.
``At that stage Huntington's Chorea, as it was known, was a fairly obscure disease,'' he ...