a play with music by Alan Cullen March 1975
A musical documentary set against the backdrop of music hall, revue sketch, monologue and folk song, the play chronicles the violent stirrings in the Sheffield politics of the 1860's.
The central problems then as now, were, wages and prices: the unions fighting the small employer and the machine: a new business attempting to compete with a monopoly.
Fast forward to see photographs of the productions in 1988 in the EPPIC Theatre
Produced by Harold and Sylvia Jones by kind permission of the author
This was the first amateur production in Sheffield
Performed in Ecclesfield Town Junior School
Actors and their Characters
Alan Frith Mr Fearnehough/ Mr Brown
Bill Smithies William Leng/ Isaac Ironside
Bob Torry William Broadhead
Dorothy Bell Singer
Elsie Bailey Other Woman
Gordon Gray Workman
Harold Jones Old Man
Hilary Spencer Minnie/ Girl
Jane Langan Woman
Janet Haddock Polly
Jean Dalby Mrs Brown
Jim Horsefield Mr Flintoff/ Chief Constable Jackson
Keith Grange Workman/ Extra
Les Bell Chairman of Inquiry/ Chairman of Music Hall
Melvyn Brady James Linley
Michael Langan Hallam/ Mayor
Neil Morris Samuel Crookes
Norma Batchelor Woman
Pat Hill Mrs Fearnehough
Paul Read Newsboy/ Apprentice
Peter Bentley Workman
Stuart Frost Sec to Court of Inquiry/ Singer
Sue Sanderson Extra
Ted Bellamy Workman/ Drunk
Vera Housley Extra
