The story of Hull fish packers' fight for equal pay features in a spring and summer season at Hull Truck Theatre with co-productions and visiting shows.
Based on a true story, Guts! The Musical by Maureen Lennon performed by a community company is "a whirlwind re-telling of 15 women in a fish packing factory in Hull who made history by demanding equal pay for equal work."
Ian Wooldridge's adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, directed by Iqbal Khan, is a co-production with Octagon Theatre Bolton and Derby Theatre. Hull Truck again teams up with the Octagon but this time also with New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick for the Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical Little Shop of Horrors directed by Lotte Wakeham.
Pilot Theatre will return to Hull with A Song for Ella Grey, its retelling of the Orpheus Myth, while the John Godber Company will perform the company's namesake's first play, Happy Jack, starring the author with his wife, Jane Thornton, in the show that brought them together more than 40 years ago. Blackeyed Theatre's production of Oh What A Lovely War will also visit Hull Truck.
Shows for young people include Snowmen from The Herd Theatre, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Shark in the Park and Ministry of Science Live—Science Saved the World.