Party: UNITED WE STAND

Party: UNITED WE STAND

United We Stand
A new play by Neil Gore
Director - Louise Townsend
Musical Director - John Kirkpatrick
Designer - Amy Yardley

Townsend Productions presents UNITED WE STAND, a powerful new play based on the true story of one of the most turbulent industrial battles - the 1972 Builders' Strike. By the 1970s the UK's building companies were making millions re-building the country, whilst building workers faced the most dangerous working conditions and poorest wages of any trade. In the summer of ‘72, for twelve weeks, 300,000 building workers launched their industry's first national all-out strike to end cash "lump" wages and seek better pay by using the controversial tactic of ‘Flying Pickets'. Five months after the apparent success of the strike, which had enraged the construction industry and government, 24 builders in North Wales were charged with offences including conspiracy and affray, and were prosecuted at Shrewsbury Crown Court in 1973. They became known as "The Shrewsbury 24", and three of them were jailed, including building workers Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson. Combining Townsend Productions' entertaining theatrical style developed through their previous productions with 1970s popular and political songs arranged by renowned folk musician John Kirkpatrick, UNITED WE STAND tells the story behind the dispute in a way that is both compelling and thought-provoking. The events surrounding the strike are still making headlines to this day, and forty two years on, the high-profile Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, led by picket turned actor, Ricky Tomlinson, is still seeking to overturn the unjust prosecution of the 24 building workers.

Tickets £8
Tickets from St Michael's on 0151 263 1808

Invited: Siobhán Morrison, Lucy Townsend, Jane Lovelady, Matthew Exley, Rebecca Loughran, Lydia Bleasdale-Hill, Blythe Cooper, Michael Parry, Melvin Goo, Annmarie Biggane, Patrick Morrison, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Laura Naylor, Mike Foley, Christine Gormley, Simon Glinn, Cathy Butterworth, Amy Sladen, Phil Cashmore, Patrick Biggane, Jayne Valentine, Mark Brooks, Jenny Gilligan, Danny Boyle, Jake Lewis, Jacqui Meakin, Alastair Clark, Anna L Orlinski, Gareth Miller, Jan Markland, Colin Michael Batho, Andrew Beech, Noel Fleming, Gerry Potter, Maureen Morrison, Aidan Pollitt, Dee Kelly, Bones Adderley, Ian Clark, John Chandler, Kevin Ronan, Mike Hannaway, Lee Stewart, Sean Deane, Mandy Williams, Jarlath Mulhern, Mike Lancaster, Kerry Mann, Terry Clarke-Coyne, Aodhán Ó Súilleabháin, Danny Barrigan, Jenny Owens, Alun Parry, Jak Malone, Tony Corcoran, Robert Morrison, Ellen Billing, Ben Slee, Conor Mc, Kitty Elizabeth Ford, Stacey Anne Grice, Peter Bentham, Davy Mcauley, Debbie Lynch, Rob King, Steven Andrew, Fiona Mc Connell, Rebecca Cope, Laura Sarah Amelia James, Richard Prendergast, Bethany Grice, Merrie Liverpool, Richie Billing, Billy Grice, Ria Wardley, Louise Robinson, Lloyd Bleasdale, Joanne Platt, Sara Bee, Steve Gilligan, Ann Batteresby, Tony Grimes, Elaine Roscoe, Shida Sattar, Paul Lord Bootle Newton, Patricia Battersby, Moira Callaghan, Cuc Arts-Liverpool, Laurence Kerwin, Christopher Stack, Lisa Johnson Sharp, Anne Marie Savage, Dot Scott, Greg Quiery, Neil Doolin, Clare McGovern, Leeann Doolin, Lee Lopez, June Clark, Jay Rehm show more »