There was a time when theatres were at heart of every town, and at the heart of each theatre was the royal box, provided for passing royalty and the lord of the local manor would bring his family to sit there. In Lynda Bellingham's beguiling new novel, we follow the lives and fortunes of a cast of characters performing in the beautiful Victorian theatre in Crewe, in Cheshire, through a nine-month season in the 1970s: we witness how relationships are formed and broken in equal measure between these intense and committed actors. And how that most privileged place in the theatre itself, the royal box, with its unique view of the stage, harboured the deepest and darkest secrets of cast, crew and audience alike.
- ISBN10 1471128725
- ISBN13 9781471128721
- Publish Date 25 September 2014
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English