Sex & Docks & Rock'n'Roll
Writer: Boff Whalley (Chumbawamba)
Director: Rod Dixon
Design: Ali Allen
Sound: Harry Hamer
Lighting: Tim Skelly
StageManager: Calum Clark
Assistant Technician: Jason Barber
Actors:Dean Nolan; Kyla Goodey; Lisa Howard.
Actor musician: Harry Hamer; Adam Smith.
TOURING WINTER 2010
(Schedule below)
Liverpool, 1960. A two-week strike by both dockworkers and seafarers has paralysed the port, and against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings one local family plays out the changing times.
They’re the McDermott’s – Dad Jerry’s on the docks, Son Jack’s on the ferries and Mum Joan and her sister Denise are in the council offices. While local Union leader Paddy Neary is carted off to Brixton Jail, the McDermott’s fight, laugh, sing and lie their way in and out of a time when post-war austerity was giving way to a decade of change.
The play looks and laughs at this changing world through the microcosm of one terraced house where the TV does battle with the upright piano. Jack croons the classics, Jerry sings skiffle and beat and Mum belts out the old bawdy sailor’s songs. “Keep the noise down, love, Z-Cars is on.”
Sex & Docks & Rock ‘n’ Roll carries on where last winter’s highly-successful show Riot, Rebellion & Bloody Insurrection left off – with Red Ladder reconnecting noisily with a great tradition of radical, political and entertaining theatre.
For further information contact Chris
TOUR SCHEDULE (details are added when confirmed)
| Mon 22 Nov | Civic Hall, Crosby | 0151 9281919 | www.seftonarts.co.uk |
| Tues 23/ Wed 24 Nov | North Lincs Rural Touring - venues tbc | ||
| Thurs 25 Nov | Arts Centre, Washington | 0191 219 3455 | www.artscentrewashington.co.uk |
| Tues 30 Nov | Rose Theatre, Ormskirk | 01695 584480 | www.edgehill.ac.uk/rosetheatre |
| Wed 1 Dec | The Octagon, Hull | 01482 387488 | www.goodwin-centre.org |
| Thurs 2 Dec | Huntingdon Hall, Worcester | 01905 611427 | www.worcesterlive.co.uk |
| Fri 3 Dec |
Bridgwater Arts Centre |
01278 422700 | www.bridgwaterartscentre.co.uk |
| Sat 4 Dec | Greentop Circus Centre Sheffield | 0114 2448828 | www.greentop.org |
| Sun 5 Dec | Otley Courthouse | 01943 467466 | www.otleycourthouse.org.uk |
| Mon 6/Tues 7 Dec | 7 Arts Centre, Leeds | 0113 2626777 | www.sevenleeds.co.uk |
| Wed 8/ Thurs 9 Dec | The Met , Bury | 0161 7612216 | www.themet.biz |
| Fri 10 Dec | Balne Lane WMC, Wakefield | 01924 212335 | www.midyorksunison@aol.co.uk |
| Mon 13 Dec | The Sage, Gateshead | 0191 4434661 | www.thesagegateshead.org |
| Tues 14 /Wed 15 Dec | Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield | 01484 430528 | www.lbt-uk.org |
| Thurs 16 Dec | The Civic, Barnsley | 0845 1800363 | www.barnsleycivic.co.uk |
| Sat 18 Dec | Queens Hall, Hexham | 01434 650477 | www.queenshall.co.uk |
| Sun 19/ Mon 20 Dec | The Viaduct, Halifax | 01422 255266 | www.deanclough.com |
| Tues 21 Dec | Civic Theatre, Oswaldtwistle | 01254 380293 | www.hyndburnentertainment.com |
| Wed 22 Dec | Playhouse, Bradford | 01274 820666 | www.bradfordplayhouse.co.uk |





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