Big Society
T1417730270
Red Ladder and Chumbawamba invite you back one hundred years into the world of Music Hall - not, they promise, a trip to the Good Old Days, but a captivating journey into the comically vulgar underbelly of Edwardian Britain - part theatre, part show, part timely rant - a time when trumped-up public schoolboys ran the country and when corruption and sleaze riddled the corridors of power (sound familiar?) Centred around a cast of showmen, starlets and ventriloquists, and set in the Leeds City Varieties of a century ago, Big Society! invites you to sing along with the assembled conjurers, drunks & suffragettes as they wrestle with the forces of wealth and morality in a concoction of comedy, class and catchy choruses. With live music from Chumbawamba, and Red Ladder's trademark mixture of entertainment and radical theatre (with the occasional dash of chaos), we're promised a Music Hall-styled evening of relevant, riotous energy. I say, I say, I say ...
Archive :: production:T1417730270, music hall:S01539925135, venue:V973
A Music Hall Comedy
