Just returned from a family trip out, seeing the last night of Love on the Dole, at the Bolton Octagon.
The parallels with what's happening today, were quite uncanny.
Even the snootiest of the wooly liberal theatre goers, left the theatre demanding that Cameron and Clegg should be forced to watch this play.
In all the years I've been going to the theatre, I've never known an audience leave a playhouse so fired up, not only eulogising about the fate of the downtrodden to their own parties, but to everyone else leaving too.
There was more than one person humming the Red Flag.
Revolution was certainly in the air in Bolton tonight.
Hopefully the damp, smoke filled air came from the bonfires remebering Guy Fawkes, and wasn't the homes of Bolton's wealthy industrialists, being burned to the ground.
Love on the Dole | Theatre | Octagon Theatre Bolton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_Dole
Great book/film, if your interested in northern economic and social history.