Barry Hines (1939–2016) was an English author who wrote several
popular novels and television scripts. He is best known for the
novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken
Loach's film Kes (1969).
Lawrence Till is a BAFTA and RTS nominated Producer & Director with
a background in award winning theatre, with over fifteen years'
experience as an Artistic Director directing plays by new and
established writers. He won a Writers' Guild Award for his
encouragement of writers and has commissioned over forty new plays.
He was Artistic Director of the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, from 1991
to 1999, and Watford Palace Theatre from 1999 to 2006.
'Laurence Till's skilful adaptation... offers a series of sure-fire
scenes... Hines' story retains an undeniable emotional pull'
*Independent*
'Sensitively scripted and stunningly staged, Kes is essentially
about a community which fails its young'
*The Times*
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