Theatre Royal, YorkPaul Allen's adaptation of the film about a colliery brass band has been revived for the 30th anniversary of the miners' strikeWhere there's muck there's brass: and there's still almost a hundred years' worth of profitable coal in the Grimley colliery seam. Yet the miners who stood firm throughout the 1984 strike now face a renewed redundancy ballot that threatens to consign both their livelihoods …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AM on February 19, 2014