New Show Celebrating Ship Builders’ Work-In
Townsend Theatre Productions’ new play is coming to Manchester in April (dates below) to perform their new play celebrating 50 years since the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ work-in (more information about the show below).
Tickets can be purchased via email /website or phone.
APR 22 – 5PM – FRIENDS’ MEETING HOUSE, MANCHESTER
6 MOUNT ST, MANCHESTER, M2 5NS
BOX OFFICE: info@townsendproductions.org.uk / https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/UCSGOVAN/t-onyvzg
It’s 1971 and Aggy McGraw, straight out of school, gets an office job at Fairfields shipyard in Govan a week before the new Tory government decides to stop any investment in what they call ‘lame duck’ industries, which includes shipbuilding on the Clyde. Facing an uncertain future, she has nothing to lose, except her job, and is swept up into the famous ‘Work In’ to demonstrate to the government that shipbuilding has a future – that the jobs, traditions, skills and communities can be saved.
Townsend Theatre Productions’ new play Yes! Yes! U.C.S! is a celebration of the community solidarity and collective resistance inspired and led by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ shop stewards Jimmy’s Reid and Airlie, attracting massive national and international support that led to victory in the fight for Right to Work.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono sent a bunch of roses
with message for the people of Glasgow; it read:
Power to the People!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘A Theatrical triumph’ Claire Jenns Voice Magazine
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Come with us, run with us, we’re going to change the world’. Lynne Walsh Morning Star
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Superbly played and sung ….. compassionate commemoration’ Joyce McMillan The Scotsman Read the full review
” It’ll leave you wondering, does it get any better!’ Ron Simpson Theatre Review Read the full review
‘Yes! Yes! UCS! is real, raw, and riveting’. Yorkshire Live
Amber O’ Connell Read the full review
‘The balance between human interest & the bigger picture is well struck, & the show’s themes & motifs certainly remain relevant today Musical Theatre Review Sara SmithRead the full review