In September Steelworks Theatre Company returns to ARC Stockton with a new play by Gordon Steel, The Fulstow Boys.
“Why doesn’t the small Lincolnshire village of Fulstow not have a War Memorial, even though men from the village died in both world wars?” the press asked.
There was a good reason which was revealed to the world at large in 2005 (along with the reason why the parish church has never even held an Armistice Sunday service) when villager Nicola Pike led a campaign which forms the subject matter of Gordon Steel’s new play which shows how, determined to right a wrong that had been hanging over Fulstow since the First World War, the tenacious Mrs Pike led the village committee in making a decision that threatened to tear the community apart—but at the same time Graham was desperate to cure his constipation; Maurice’s back was playing up and Moira was furious that someone else has been asked to make the chocolate cake at the forthcoming fete.
It’s a heart-breaking and yet hilarious tale which plays at ARC from 6 to 15 September before moving on to the Customs House in South Shields from 24 to 29.
The company’s first production, Grow Up Grandad, toured the region in 2016 to great acclaim.