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North Edinburgh Arts: We are the Lions, Mr Manager!

SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER at 7.30pm

We are the lions, Mr Manager! is the story of the Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike (1976–78) and the inspirational strike-leader Jayaben Desai, one of many newly arrived Gujarati women workers from East Africa.

⭐⭐⭐⭐“The story of Jayaben Desai… makes you laugh, feel and think… a powerful story, powerfully told.” – Clare Brennan, The Guardian

📅 Saturday 11 October, 7.30pm

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🎟️ Tickets: £7 – £14

💜 Discounted tickets available for NEA Members

👉 Book your tickets now: https://northedinburgharts.co.uk/…/we-are-the-lions-mr…/

Presented by Townsend Theatre Productions

Yes! Yes! UCS!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Townsend Theatre Productions latest play coming to North Edinburgh Arts

It’s 1971 and Aggy McGraw, straight out of school, gets an office job at Fairfields shipyard in Govan a week before the new Tory government decides to stop any investment in what they call ‘lame duck’ industries, which includes shipbuilding on the Clyde.

Facing an uncertain future, she has nothing to lose, except her job, and is swept up into the famous ‘Work In’ to demonstrate to the government that shipbuilding has a future – that the jobs, traditions, skills and communities can be saved. 

Townsend Theatre Productions’ new play Yes! Yes! U.C.S! is a celebration of the community solidarity and collective resistance inspired and led by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ shop stewards Jimmy’s Reid and Airlie, attracting massive national and international support that led to victory in the fight for Right to Work.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono sent a bunch of roses with message for the people of Glasgow; it read: “Power to the People!”

Yes! Yes! UCS! begins a nationwide tour in February and comes to North Edinburgh Arts on 27 April (venue to be confirmed due to the Arts Centre’s redevelopment).

Rouse Ye Women! New Townsend Theatre production coming to North Edinburgh Arts

New Townsend Theatre production coming to North Edinburgh Arts

Townsend Theatre Productions is delighted to announce the world premiere of its new show “Rouse, Ye Women!” Continue reading Rouse Ye Women! New Townsend Theatre production coming to North Edinburgh Arts

We Will Be Free – next Friday!

WWBF Publicity

I  have attached (above) a copy of a leaflet publicising ‘We Will Be Free’, a new play by Townsend Theatre Productions, about the Tolpuddle Martyrs and their fight for justice (see blurb on back page).   It’s being hosted by North Edinburgh Arts next Friday (25 October) as part of our Power to the People Autumn programme.  Tickets are only £3 for local folk with good neighbour cards (free from the arts centre).

This is Townsend Theatre Productions second visit to North Edinburgh.  Last year, they brought us ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’  which they performed brilliantly.

Hope to see you at the performance!

Lynn McCabe

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