by Chris Urch

"I can’t believe we’re arguing over a Blue Riband."
"I can’t believe we’re stuck down a mine."
"Yet here we are."

3 May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave and six Welsh Miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks, everything these men believe in and everything they know will have changed.

 

Chris Urch's debut play is packed full of blistering comedy and a generation of lost voices.

 

Land of Our Fathers had its world premiere at Theatre503 on 18 September 2013.

Cast & Crew

 

Bomber Clive Merrison
Hovis Paul Prescott
Chopper Patrick Brennan
Curly Kyle Rees
Chewy Taylor Jay-Davies
Mostyn Joshua Price

Director Paul Robinson
Designer Signe Beckmann
Lighting Designer Hartley T A Kemp
Composer & Sound Designer Simon Slater

A co-production with Theatre503 and Euan Borland Productions

 

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Land of our Fathers

Reviews

 

★★★★★
‘a blisteringly good debut’
Time Out, Critic’s Choice and Fringe Show of the Year 2013

 

★★★★
‘undeniably powerful’
The Guardian

 

★★★★★
Entertainment Focus, Fringe Show of the Year 2013

 

★★★★
Evening Standard

 

★★★★★
South London Press

 

★★★★
What’s On Stage

 

★★★★★
One Stop Arts

 

★★★★
The Public Reviews
 
★★★★
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