Good Nights Out av Aleks (Author Freelance arts journalist) Sierz

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London¿s West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In <i>Good Nights Out</i>, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows that were enormous commercial successes over the past 75 years. He argues that these outstanding hits have a lot to say about the collective cultural, social and political attitudes and aspirations of the country, and about how our national identity ¿ and theatre¿s role in creating it ¿ has evolved over the decades. The book spans a range of work from almost forgotten plays, such as R. F. Delderfield¿s <i>Worm¿s Eye View </i>and Hugh Hastings¿s <i>Seagulls Over Sorrento</i>, to well-known mega-hits, such as <i>The Mousetrap</i> and <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i>. Such popular work has tended to be undervalued by some critics and commentators mainly because it has not been thought to be a suitable subject for inclusion in the canon