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.