Portrait o a Woman
The 22nd Demand
A Celebration For Solidarity- 1983
By John Harvey and the company
Directed by Gerry Mulgrew, Alison Peebles, Rob Pickavance
A large scale community involvement show, devised over 3 weeks, involving around 50 volunteers, staged at the Theatre Workshop Edinburgh. This was the story, told as a kind of “living newspaper”, of the Polish Solidarity movement, with a seven piece band and cabaret numbers. As the events being described were still unfolding as the piece was rehearsed and performed, new material was added for each performance, hot from the pen of John Harvey.
Reviews
This “industrial melodrama” – Robotnik is, for all its rough edges, an extraordinary cocktail of what could easily have been conflicting styles
Cordelia Oliver, The Guardian
the show is skilfully and imaginatively staged; Theatre Workshop’s auditorium has been cleverly transformed so as to involve the audience in events as fully as possible…..the company succeed in communicating a desperate concern for what is happening in Poland, together with a sense of deep anger and sadness
John Clifford, The Scotsman
The huge cast are deployed to maximum effect – especially in the fiercely committed songs to music with distinctly Brechtian overtones
Richard Mowe, Edinburgh Evening news
Tour
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