Peter Hambleton: from Hobbit hole to local library

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Peter Hambleton is perhaps better known as Glóin in The Hobbit trilogy. But he's ditched the Dwarf costume and put down his axe to do battle with people we pay our rates to, in a new stage comedy called Local Library, opening at Circa next weekend. It's set in a fictitious suburb, but one we would all recognise - and presents a very real tension: what's more important - infrastructure (think pipes, wastewater plants, the basics) - or keeping community places like libraries funded and open? Local Library asks what we lose when those trade-offs go wrong.

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