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Waiting for Wesley
Event description
Calderdale Industrial Museum will be hosting a performance by The Brutish Multitude Theatre Company of a script in hand version of a new play by Michael Crowley on Sunday 6th August 2023.
Waiting for Wesley is set in the Calder Valley in the summer of 1842 when a wave of strikes engulfed Lancashire and Yorkshire. As well as demanding a reversal of wage cuts, many workers demanded the government give way to the People’s Charter and introduce universal male suffrage. Supporters of ‘physical force’ Chartism were numerous in the area, Hebden Bridge Radical Association declared its belief in “the justice and right of the people to possess arms in their defence.” Thousands of troops confronted strikers, killing five and wounding many more. The play focuses on one family as tensions mount as a husband and wife are torn between allegiance to the church and organising the rebellion. Performance at 3pm, doors open at 2pm.
There will be a Q and A after the performance.
Tickets are £10 each
Event details
- This event is at Calderdale Industrial Museum
- Tickets are £10
- This event runs from 06 Aug 2023 - 06 Aug 2023.
- calderdaleindustrial.co.uk/
