Created by Ed Waugh

Directed by Russell Floyd

Starring the North East's top talent

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May 4, 2026, was the 100th anniversary of the first full day of the 1926 General Strike - the biggest rupture in British society since the English Civil War. Millions of workers and their families withdrew their labour, challenging the British state and the very existence of the Establishment.

 

Locally, it led to the imprisonment of the infamous Cramlington Train Wreckers.

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Centenary was a celebration of the historical nine-day 1926 General Strike - when workers believed a new, equal and better world was possible. It could have happened then - it still can.

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At The Glasshouse, Gateshead was a show that included songs, comedy sketches, satire, stand-up comedy and recitations.

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Song permission from Paul Weller, Tom Robinson and Paul Simmonds (The Men They Couldn't Hang).

 

Wisecrack put on two sold-out shows called Boris Out!, and look what happened to him!