Brassed Off – Leeds Playhouse
Britain has had two civil wars, and the second was the titanic battle that ran between 1985 and 1985 as our nation’s miners who were the shock troops of the industrial working class took on Thatcher’s Tory government.
This stage revival of the hit movie Brassed Off takes place a decade after that bitter dispute in the fictional pit village of Grimley where the miners are agonising whether to vote to take a big redundancy package and let their mine die. Meanwhile, troubled young miner Andy is finding love with his school flame Gloria who has come back home, but is she who she appears to be?
Paul Allen’s witty and often bleak adaptation also uses the colliery’s brass band - led by obsessive conductor Danny who believes music is the answer to everything - to explore the idea of wh...
