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Canary Girls
The Admiral Nelson, Braunston/Touring
5/5
FOR 45 years Mikron Theatre have been taking their self-made musical shows by narrow boat all around the country and there can be few better ways to spend a balmy summer’s evening than watching the company perform in a canal-side pub garden.
Their work always has a political message and Canary Girls, a joint production with Unite the union, tells the story of women workers in WWI munitions factories.
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