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The staging needs to be
very fluid, to allow the action and changes of speaker or location to flow
seamlessly.
In Salisbury we had a bare stage,
with an upper level at either side. Slides
were projected onto an overhead screen, but as these are not essential, I have
removed them from the text, apart from a reference to the final collage, which
is part of the story.
The slides we used in the Salisbury production were:
- A
threshing machine
- Cartoon:
‘The skeleton at the plough’
- Cartoon: death sentence
- The Wesleys
- Membership certificate of the Grand National
Consolidated Trades Union
- The Home Office
- The caution
- The calendar of prisoners at the lent assizes
1834
- Coat of arms at Dorchester Assizes
- “that a petition be presented to his majesty
praying that he will be pleased to remit the sentence”
- Cartoon: the King rejecting labourer’s pleas
for mercy
- Demonstration
at Copenhagen Fields, London
- The
York hulk
- Prison
ship at sea
- Print
of convicts working
- House
of Commons portcullis
- Engraving of tall ships in harbour
- Sale note of New House Farm
- The Charter being taken to parliament
- The epitaph from George & Betsy
Loveless’s grave
The sequence of Trade
Union landmarks included:
- membership certificate of the National
Agricultural Labourer’s Union
- the first Trade Union Congress
- the General Strike
- opposition to the means test
- the National Insurance scheme
- nationalisation of the mines
- the introduction of state education, and health
and safety legislation
- Grunwick
- Lucas Aerospace Joint Shop Stewards Committee
Arms Conversion Bus
- the Miners’ strike, & Orgreave
- GCHQ
- Wapping
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