Sex & Docks & Rock 'n' Roll

Event published by Bradford Playhouse

Event date: December 22, 2010 19:30

Tagged as: economic_crisis social_struggles

Bradford Playhouse, 4-12 Chapel Street, Little Germany, Bradford BD1 5DL

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Written by CHUMBAWUMBA'S BOFF WHALLEY, this play is set in 1960's Liverpool during a dockworkers' and seafarers' strike and looks and laughs at this changing world through the microcosm of one terraced house where the TV does battle with the upright piano.

Against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings one local family fights, laughs and sings their way through these challenging times; fuelled by home-brewed banana beer and a tea-chest bass. Jack croons the classics, Jerry sings skiffle and beat and mum belts out the bawdy sailor's songs. "Keep the noise down, love, Z-cars is on."

It's history with choruses you can sing along to with Red Ladder reconnecting noisily with a great tradition of radical, political and entertaining theatre.

"The anarchic energy of Rod Dixon's production provides a fine fit for the group's pranksterish outlook on life" The Guardian