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BRADFORD THEATRE
Orgreave: An English Civil War
Theatre In The Mill
University of Bradford, Off Shearbridge Road
June 28
Working with writer and director Javaad Alipoor and designer Uzma Kazi, Northern Lines Community Actors have spent the last year researching and developing this play about the momentous events at Orgreave during the 1984 miners’ strike. From Margaret Thatcher to the Women Against Pit Closures campaign and from Special Branch officers to union militants, Orgreave: An English Civil War tells the story of those who lived through that period and who are still living through its consequences. Recommended.
www.brad.ac.uk/theatre/whats-on
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
Left Field Stage
Worthy Farm, Pilton
June 28-29
The corporate press may run gossip columns on the big acts at Glasto but this paper won’t because we’ll be covering some of the highlights at the Left Field, started by the RMT union in 2000. It’s a core stage — literally, because it’s slap-bang in the middle of the fest — and because its left-wing roots are still evident as Glasto moves towards deeper commercialisation. Worth catching are comedians Francesca Martinez (pictured) and Mark Steel and a “DIY protest” with UK Uncut.
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
LONDON FILM
Avant Noir
ICA, The Mall, SW1
July 5
The film and video work from Africa and its diaspora to be screened in Avant Noir offer unique visions of the international black experience while celebrating the presence of artists who are often excluded from the mainstream. The programme gives a provocative impression of living while black at the dawn of the 21st century as it explores the racial implications inherent in archival footage, documentaries of work and workers, the depiction of relationships and the fomentation of revolutionary action. The black presence is largely conspicuous by its absence on film and video and this is a welcome initiative by the ICA in attempting to partially redress the balance.
MANCHESTER EXHIBITION
A Land Fit For Heroes: War And The Working Class 1914-1918
People’s History Museum
Until February 1
This fascinating exhibition looks at why some people did or did not support the first world war, the role that women played in the war effort and how home life was radically changed. While exhibits, including the National Union of Railwaymen’s magnificent Hither Green banner (pictured), show how workers supported the war effort, A Land Fit For Heroes shows too how from the horrors of the war a new social and political confidence among the working classes developed that would help define the new Britain forged in the latter half of the 20th century. Free.
