Cabaret Season 2014 is well and truly under way at Hayes Theatre Co, and its July program includes Toby Francis in Love And Death And An American Guitar. Alongside musical director Andrew Worboys, Francis lifts the lid on American composer Jim Steinman, the writer behind Meat Loaf’s classic 1977 rock epic Bat Out Of Hell. Once that album ruled the world, what came next? According to Love And Death An American Guitar, it was a struggle for recognition, unpaid royalties and fresh creative inspiration.

Love And Death And An American Guitar runs at Hayes Theatre Co from Friday July 4 – Sunday July 6, and we’ve got a double pass to give away. For your chance to win, head to the comments below and tell us about your favourite forgotten writer.

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