New York City: London calling.(FRONT and CENTER)(Play Slag Heap by anton dudley at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre)(Theater Review)

WANDERING THE STREETS OF MANCHESTER AS A CHILD, playwright anton dudley (who signs himself in lower case) was strangely riveted by its bleak landscape. Desolate factories--built during the height of Britain's industrial revolution, then abandoned during northern England's 20th-century economic fallout--towered over seas of dilapidated houses and piecemeal lives.

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But where others might find despair, dudley saw possibility, hope--and comedy.

"I like to look in places where others might not care to look for humor," explains the ...

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