Footprints Festival
Shake The City
BY MILLIE GASTON.
DIRECTED BY MILLIE GASTON.
12 July -
18 July 2022
18 July 2022
Overview
“You are brave and together we are strong.”
Lori, Wendy, Margaret and Heather have set up their own makeshift Women’s Liberation Movement meetings in the fight for equal pay. The women of the John Collier’s clothworking factory are standing on the cusp of a shining new decade but what lengths must they go to in order to unpick the rotten seams of a stiff-necked factory?
Shake the City brings the forgotten clothworker’s strikes of 1970 into stark relief. Developed by Leeds Playhouse, it is written and directed by Johnstone Creative Associate Millie Gaston with designs by Creative Associate Caitlin Mawhinney.
People
Millie Gaston
Writer
Writer
Caitlin Mawhinney
Designer
Designer