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Tithe War!

Wed 19 Sep 2001 - Sat 17 Nov 2001

They fought history, and won

All the traditional elements of an Eastern Angles show come together in this new musical play: a hidden moment of history brought to life, a raft of new songs composed by Pat Whymark, and an epic story based on reral characters and events.

Doreen Wallace was an Oxford blue-stocking who married a farmer, wrote novels, held tennis parties and raised a family. Then she found her life's cause in the celebrated tithe protest of the 1930s. The result was a massive farm siege involving farmers and farmworkers, police and clergy, bailiffs and Blackshirts, and half the village of Wortham in Suffolk.

It's a tale of love across the barricades, a fight against injustice and a celebration of the Jazz Age - all in one.

 

 

Nikolas Austin

Pieter Lowe

Glynn Dilley

Martin Belville

Jacquelyn Hynes

Alice Barclay

Writer

Ivan Cutting

Director

Ivan Cutting

Designer

Dora Schweitzer

Lighting

Steve Cooney

Music

Pat Whymark (Music & Lyrics)