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A NEW theatre production on the life of Labour pioneer Keir Hardie will be staged across libraries in Newham for free.
The site-specific play, dubbed A Splotch of Red: Keir Hardie in West Ham, will be performed across the borough’s libraries and community links in Canning Town.
Newham has strong links with Labour’s first MP when he stood as an independent candidate for the West Ham South constituency in the 1892 general election.
The production notes state: “An illegitimate and wretchedly poor son of a servant, Hardie had worked in the coal mines from the age of 10.
“How could he possibly take on the formidable might of the Conservative Party candidate, the wealthy and blue-blooded Major Banes?
“Could he actually win the election in West Ham and become Britain’s first socialist MP?”
The same production team, with writer Jim Kenworth and director James Martin Charlton, staged George Orwell’s Animal Farm on a city farm in Newham.
For more information and to reserve a space for a show at a library of your choice visit www.splotchofred.co.uk.
