The Pitmen Painters is a play by Lee Hall about a group of mostly miners from which town in Northumberland?
The Pitmen Painters (play) in October 2011 at the Duchess Theatre. The Canadian premiere of "The Pitmen Painters" ran in February 2012 at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Ontario. Hall learnt about the group from a "Guardian" article by Martin Wainwright. This encouraged him to buy the book "Pitmen Painters: The Ashington Group 1934-1984" by William Feaver about the group, on which the play is loosely based. A February 2014 production by United Players at the Jericho Theatre in Vancouver sold out many of its performances. A Spanish adaption "Mineros" has been performed at the Metropolitan Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Pitmen Painters (play)
Lee Hall (playwright) Lee Hall (playwright) Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film "Billy Elliot". Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, in 1966, the son of a house painter and decorator and a housewife. He was educated at Benfield School in Walkergate. As a youth he went to Wallsend Young People's Theatre along with Deka Walmsley and Trevor Fox who later appeared in both "Billy Elliot" and "The Pitmen Painters". He went to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and was taught by the