Coronation Street writer Jonathan Harvey has revealed more details of what fans can expect from his forthcoming play celebrating 50 years of the soap.
The show's long-term scriptwriter has penned Corrie!, an upcoming stage production which will condense five decades of births, deaths, marriages and other dramatic events into one action-packed two-hour show.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo about the project, Harvey explained: "It was great to write, but really hard work trying to work out what was going to be in it. With all the major characters, just trying to work out what their journeys had been through the show, what scenes we needed to show, and stuff like that.
"Ken, Deirdre and Gail are the linchpins of the evening and other stories and comedy themes are dotted in and out to give a flavour of how the show's been over the last 50 years."
Harvey added that his production does not only focus on comedy as it also contains emotional and dramatic moments.
He said: "There needed to be space in the play to savour big emotional scenes and the big fights on the Street and Gail discovering Richard Hillman's a serial killer. You want to see those scenes and you don't want to be laughing in them, you want to be hooked and moved and excited."
Corrie! - which will see five actors taking on all the roles between them - is to be performed at The Lowry theatre in Salford between August 12 and 25.
