Who gets to tell history? That's a question posed in a new production - Rockets and Blue Lights - at The Royal Exchange next week.
The play by award-winning writer Winsome Pinnock, deftly fuses three tales from across the ages, taking their starting point from a painting by the renowned English Romantic painter JMW Turner.
Playing the artist is Paul Bradley - perhaps best known as Nigel Bates in EastEnders and Elliot Hope in Holby City and a graduate of Manchester University's drama department - who makes a welcome return to the Exchange, where he began his professional career.
Ahead of his return to the city we asked Paul what this all-new production is about: "It is a play which juxtaposes stories about the legacy of British involvement
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