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We Are the Lions, Mr Manager!
Engaging account of groundbreaking Grunwick strike
CONVINCING Medhavi Patel as Jayaben Desai
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
THE GRUNWICK strike of 1976-78, a seminal moment in labour history, began with the righteous courage of one small woman who stood up to the Establishment and fought for justice.
It’s the story that Townsend Theatre Productions tells in the online version of their stage play We Are the Lions, Mr Manager!
Its main protagonist Jayaben Desai, Indian by birth, flees hostile conditions in East Africa to England where she takes a menial job at the Grunwick film processing plant in north-west London, only to find that conditions in the factory are draconian.
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