Dave Armstrong: the ”failed maths teacher and trumpet player” adding to his string of hit plays

Playwright Dave Armstrong describes his new Circa Theatre show, Local Library as a love letter to libraries and the people who work in them, inspired by a real-life incident involving a man who was gaming the magazine rental system to save $2. From that, Armstrong built a two-hander about a conservative British retiree and a feminist librarian at war over a library ban, who slowly discover they have more in common than either expected. It stars Peter Hambleton and Jude Gibson. He also tells Perlina about Roger Hall signing emails "father," and what it means that Local Library performs on the exact night, 50 years later, that Hall's Glide Time premiered at Circa.