Chapel Street, one of Salford’s main roads, is to be closed for five nights in July as a local performance group re-enacts a historic demonstration from the 1930s.
Salford Community Theatre Project presents a new play based on Walter Greenwood’s acclaimed novel Love on the Dole. Beginning in Islington Mill, audiences will then be guided by a community cast, retracing the steps of the National Unemployed Workers Movement march in Salford in 1931.
The production switches between past and present, theatre and reality, as the infamous Battle of Bexley Square is relived by audience and cast alike underneath its own commemorative plaque.
The play is a new stage adaptation of the novel that looks at the pressure unemployment puts on relationships, families and communities. It was written specifically for a community cast by co-director Sarah Weston.