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We Are the Lions, Mr Manager!
Engaging account of groundbreaking Grunwick strike
CONVINCING Medhavi Patel as Jayaben Desai
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
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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