STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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LYNNE WALSH recommends an outstanding production with the zeal to tell stories of our socialist past
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Behold Ye Ramblers
Sands Film Studio
THREE things stand out in this exhilarating show: the power of song, the zeal to tell stories of our socialist history, and the mastery demanded of the solo artist.
Townsend Theatre productions are invariably politically motivated, yet their narratives of class struggle are always twinkled through with humour and plenty of audience participation.
Their aim here is to bring us the astonishing tale of the Clarion newspaper, and the social movement it spawned. Founder and journalist Robert Blatchford started the paper in 1891, out of his own pocket. At its height, it sold between 30,000 and 70,000 copies a week. Contributors included Rebecca West, George Bernard Shaw and Walter Crane.
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