CABLE STREET’s first run at Southwark Playhouse Borough in February/March 2024 offered out – earlier than the present had even opened! CABLE STREET is the brand new British musical with an pressing story for at the moment’s audiences.
★★★★★ “as powerful today as it was in 1936” – learn the total evaluate
In an electrifying reimagining of one in all London’s most momentous days, CABLE STREET is a vastly highly effective and topical musical: when The Battle of Cable Street was fought and gained within the coronary heart of London’s East End on the 4th October 1936. With racial tensions working excessive, individuals took to the streets – CABLE STREET celebrates a neighborhood who got here along with a name for motion.
Sammy, Mairead and Ron passionately stay their lives within the multi-cultural melting pot that’s Cable Street. They are desperately making an attempt to carve out their very own futures, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (Blackshirts) begin to march on the East End. Over 100 thousand Jews, Irish staff, commerce unionists, the labour and communist events, ladies and youngsters all unite to blockade Cable Street – the street all of them name house. As the individuals elevate their voices with cries of They Shall Not Pass, they take a united stand towards hatred. The lives of the streets’ residents will change eternally…..
The efficiency on Friday 4 October might be notably poignant for all, being the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street.
The Battle of Cable Street nonetheless resonates at the moment, and the award successful composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin and playwright Alex Kanefsky determined that CABLE STREET should characteristic a recent rating: bringing to life a significant a part of London’s wealthy range and historical past. CABLE STREET is Directed by Adam Lenson, Lead Producer Dylan Schlosberg’s 10 to 4 Productions (a manufacturing firm devoted to growing and investing in new musicals) and Producer Neil Marcus. The manufacturing staff additionally contains: Choreography Jevan Howard-Jones, Musical Supervisor Tamara Saringer, Associate Director Jamie Buller, Orchestrations and preparations by Tim Gilvin, Vocal preparations by Tim Gilvin & Tamara Saringer, Set Design Yoav Segal, Lighting Design Sam Waddington, Sound Charlie Smith, Costume Design Lu Herbert, Dramaturg Olivia Mace, Production Management The Production Office, Casting Sarah Leung.
CABLE STREET is the brand new British musical with an pressing story for at the moment’s audiences.