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We Are the Lions, Mr Manager!
Engaging account of groundbreaking Grunwick strike
CONVINCING Medhavi Patel as Jayaben Desai
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
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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