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It's the 1930's and a young Joan Littlewood has walked out of RADA and stomped her way north, searching for the revolution. She reaches Manchester and finds kindred spirits, an industrial solidarity, and a determination to hear the voices of dissent - at the Rusholme Rep! There she embarks on a production with Ernst Toller, German anarchist and ex political prisoner. His play, Draw The Fires tells of the story of the Kiel Uprising that brought the first world war to its knees. But Joan doesn't like the play, it's all too male, where are the women she demands to know?! As Joan's rows with Toller shake the building, so from the factories of northern England to the mills of northern Germany, the voices of the women rise up from the depths. Together, they issue a revolutionary call that renounces militarism and brings the madness of war to an end.T709755819In this imagined piece, Bent Architect expertly weave newly unearthed verbatim histories of the women of Kiel with the radical force of Littlewood in her early Manchester years, to hear those voices resound afresh, to reveal a new, hitherto barely considered truth about a war which engulfed the world, which was brought to an end when ordinary people rejected conflict in favour of peace.Company Bent Architect. | |
| 15 Nov 18 | Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton :: V160 listing details L400454822 |
| 9 Nov 18 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L0464558152 |
| 6 Nov 18 | Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury :: V673 listing details L0582060045 |
| 23 Oct 18 | Theatre Royal, York :: V954 listing details L01002122123 |
| 22 Oct 18 | Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate :: V942 listing details L535687404 |
| 18 Oct 18 | Theatre Royal Wakefield, Wakefield :: V979 listing details L538988897 |
| 15 Oct 18 | Lakeside Theatre, Colchester :: V36 listing details L187658427 |
| 3 Oct 18 to 5 Oct 18 | Stage@Leeds University of Leeds, Leeds :: V116321011 listing details L01292239099 |
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