Happy Jack

John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights’ league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Aykbourn.

Godber manages with an affectionate and unerringly accurate ear for the tongues of the pit village to turn these two into a Chaucerian kind of celebration of life. At the end of the line the play is a sad, bruised but richly comic love story.