why Boys From the Blackstuff’s most tragic character remains relevant to this day
The ironic tragedy of Yosser Hughes, the chronically unemployed asphalt worker in Alan Bleasdale’s drama Boys From The Blackstuff, is that he screamed and wailed into a void. Nobody listened. His now legendary plea to anyone, anyone he met on the streets of Liverpool, to ‘suggest’ him a job went unheard and ignored. People, and … Read more