Torches and performers set the
stage alight as Worklight Theatre presented a narrative and analysis of the
Summer of Discord, 2011. A speedy hour whizzed past as we witnessed the
spectacle of that confusing time: just 2 years ago and it already seems like
another age.
Yet the play reminded us how ‘the political
rhetoric’ surrounding those riots has a history stretching back through the 20th
century and to the Industrial Revolution. Talking of which, here’s an open
offer to Worklight Theatre and Spaniel in the Works Theatre Company: let me
know if you would like to get heads around the decade of Chartism in the Stroud
Valleys, or the periods of weavers’ riots or food riots. That might be
something too.
Fringe Review2012: ‘Theatre so
spell-binding yet brutally honest and brave that it actually gave me goose
bumps’
Broadway Baby 2012: ‘Professionally
stunning…’
All of us in our group who went, from teenagers to citizens of seniority, would totally recommend seeing this whilst in our area:
26th, 27th, 28th, September, Cheltenham, Everyman
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