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Theatre Review: Martyrs’ cause a reminder of how status quo can be challenged
We Will Be Free!
The Carriageworks, Leeds
4/5
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
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Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
The need to revive the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ spirit to fight against today’s wage race to the bottom is continually implied in Neil Gore’s We Will Be Free!
The struggle for higher wages and the six mens’ impact on trade unionism is told through the upheaval caused to Betsy Loveless and the other wives of the farm labourers, who were transported in 1834 to Australia for swearing an oath as members of a secret society.
A two-hander that’s framed by a mummers show, it pitches the martyrs’ fight for fair pay on a par with the epic struggle of Saint George with the dragon. This use of broadly comedic performance, with Gore and Charlotte Powell playing multiple roles, foreshadows the rest of the show.
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