Red Ladder Theatre Company and North Staffs TUC present: We’re Not Going Back – 8th Oct Fenton Town Hall, 7pm.
Written by Boff Whalley
75 Mines. 3 Sisters. 1 Cause. (And a six-pack of Babycham)
2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners and no cops. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village, hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of ‘Women Against Pit Closures’.
Early 1984, and Olive, Mary and Isabel are sisters whose everyday squabbles collide with a strike that forces them to question their lives, their relationships and their family ties.
This strike wasn’t just a war fought on the battlegrounds of the picket line, Parliament and public opinion. It was as much a battle in the homes and families of those fighting for their communities.
We’re Not Going Back tackles the resilience of working communities, the make-and-mend fabric of family and the power of sticking two fingers up to a government hell-bent on destruction… and all with humour, song and a six pack of Babycham.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️“Elvi Piper’s fine revival of Boff Whalley’s 2014 musical comedy about three sisters on a pit village frontline in 1984 is full of humour, drama and lived experience” THE OBSERVER
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We’re Not Going Back “surprisingly funny, but ultimately incredibly moving, play”
THE REVIEWS HUB Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/6ScnAFuHalw?si=Oc9Ce_R8KGgyk9zg
ALL performances of We’re Not Going Back will use Talking Birds’ brilliant The Difference Engine, meaning d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members can get captions direct to their own mobile devices
Tickets are available from Fenton Town Hall Cafe and via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/were-not-going-back-tickets-948876022727?aff=oddtdtcreator
