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Mark Thomas' 'The Red
Shed' will be at the Liverpool Everyman later this year!
Photograph by Tracey Moberley.
OUR favourite campaigning comic Mark
Thomas returns to Liverpool this Autumn with The Red Shed, the 3rd part of his
theatrical trilogy which began with the multi award winning, critically
acclaimed Bravo Figaro and Cuckod. Mark returns to the place where it all
began:- 'the Red Shed', a labour club in Wakefield; to celebrate
the club’s 50th Birthday.
The Shed, home to Mark’s 1st public
performances, is also a home to dissent, to organising and to progressive
politics, and so it was here that Mark’s true political prowess began. An iconic
and vital place for its patrons, this is where the true meaning of solidarity is
found and where you can be part of history and part of the struggle. A South
London lad, born to a Thatcherite world of self employed builders, labourers and
tradesman like his father where the individual is key, Wakefield’s alien
traditional labour community awoke a new determination in Mark and changed his
life forever. Interviewing old friends
and comrades, Mark pieces together the club’s history and works alongside it to
campaign with some of the poorest workers in the country. It is the story of the
battle for hope and the survival of a community. It is a tale of strikes,
fights, dinner ladies, crap beer, good beer, burger slingers, pickets, placards,
commies, friendship, love, history, dreams and, above all, remembering. Part
theatre, part stand up, part journalism, part activism, Mark realises his
obsession with community and struggle. Mark Thomas' 'The Red Shed'
will be at the Liverpool Everyman, over 16 Steptember to 17 September 2016.
For tickets please call:- 0151 709 4776 or visit:-
MarkThomasInfo.Com. |
