The History of Polly Bowler by award-winning writer Keith Dewhurst is set in the precarious world of Victorian theatre.
When her mother dies in childbirth and her father flees to escape transportation for machine-smashing, Polly Bowler and her younger brother run away from their harsh working life in a Lancashire cotton mill and join a company of strolling players.
Polly Bowler tells the story of her coming of age with.