2016 · Theatre, immersive · Arcola Theatre, Ivy House and Platform Southwark (Merge Festival), London
Produced by Robin Linde Productions
The miners’ strike and the Thatcher years as a backdrop, and one question underneath it: what does solidarity mean once it starts to cost you something personally?
Rather than seat the audience in front of the story, we put them inside it. The show took the form of a fundraising party for the strike, with music and bingo, so that political history arrived as a social occasion instead of a history lesson. Nobody watched a community from the outside; for one evening they were in one.
Written by: Aled Pedrick
Directed by: Yasmeen Arden
Produced by: Robin Linde Productions and Robyn Bennett
Cast: Charlotte Higgins, Judith Amsenga, Jeremy Hancock, Dominik Golding
Music: Kevin Potton and Jessica Dives
Performed at: Arcola Theatre, Ivy House and Platform Southwark during Merge Festival
★★★★ “Genuinely a brilliant, well structured piece.” — Female Arts
“Full of guts, glitterballs and… bingo.” — Princess Productions