Strike!

Author(s): Tracy Ryan Company: Ardent Theatre Company

Dunnes Stores, Dublin, July 1984

As a South African grapefruit rolls towards the shop till, it will start something that will take nearly three years to finish…

It’s a hot, hot summer and Frankie Goes to Hollywood are riding high in the charts. At Dunnes Store, shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to ring up a grapefruit, sticking to her union instructions not to handle South African goods, in protest of the country’s apartheid policies.

Mary is immediately suspended and it’s not long before she and eight other young women and one young man, all workers at Dunne’s, are out on strike. It’ll only last a few weeks…

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