| In
the 25th Anniversary Year of the Great Miners’
Strike, most of the cast of David Thacker’s
1985 production come back together to revive this
pioneering piece of verbatim theatre.
What the critics said
in 1985:
"Using the starkly revealing words
of the actual participants, Ron Rose’s
account of the recent conflict in the coalfields
is a powerful piece of documentary theatre.
It’s a shocking experience. This howl
of outrage may have lit a fire, even in somnambulant
England hard to put out. The Company are wonderful."
CITY LIMITS
"Its verbatim accounts, assembled
from countless interviews with striking miners
and their families, speak of an open wound which
no one has troubled to heal. It is a recurring
theme of injustice coupled with victimisation.
A packed audience received it all with rapt
acclaim." THE DAILY MAIL
"There are chilling scenes of faces
bloodied, accounts of heads cracked open and
impressions of an almost universally unsympathetic
outside world of housewives, doctors and television
producers. The acting is reverberatively fine."
THE GUARDIAN
"I see a great future for this
play touring cities like Moscow, Sofia and Prague
where they will welcome the news that the British
Police State is even more brutal than their
own." LONDON STANDARD
Writer
Ron Rose has written more than 60 plays performed
by many of the country's leading theatres. His
extensive TV credits include The Bill,
Heartbeat, Between the Lines
and the critically acclaimed Love and Reason.
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