The play that changed my life: Jim Cartwright's 'rude, raucous and deadly serious' Road

Our new series on transformative theatrical discoveries begins with the surreal 1986 drama set on a street in Lancashire I must have been about 14. Our English teacher had taken us to a library and set us a task. We were to choose any book from the shelves and start reading. I wandered around, went to the toilet a few times, pretended to look for a book. Eventually, my teacher caught me. He glared: why don't you have a book in your hand like everybody else? I turned to my right and spotted a sma...