16 May 9pm
waterfront 1 sweet venues
A People’s story of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster.
Truth Street weaves eye-witness testimony into one powerful voice that shares the poetry found in the hearts of the people who lived through this dark day in our shared social memory.
'Simple, powerful, moving.'
Brian Patten
'This piece is worth a million other words.'
Helen Mort.
Truth Street has been used as a rehearsed reading text with youth theatre groups in Liverpool. It has also been performed as a set piece reading by the writer, David Cain at the Hat Factory in Luton.
The performance at the Spark Factory, part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2017, will see the work developed in to a full 45 minute acted performance, with musical accompaniment. The piece will be read for the first time by actors, making this a premier for the show.
The piece is written by David Cain, a writer and social historian. The script is entirely taken verbatim from eye-witness accounts to the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989. As a result of events that afternoon, ninety-six men, women and children lost their lives. It remains the most serious tragedy in UK sporting history. Thousands suffered physical injury and/or long-term psychological harm. But events did not finish that day, The disaster led to a twenty-seven year fight for justice that continues to this day.
David’s work has previously been performed on radio, most notably by Cerys Matthews on BBC Radio Six Music. He is currently collaborating with DJ Ashely Beadle and renowned musicians Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Darren Morris on a new album. David has also commissioned a number of social history plays and public events, most recently Somewhere in England for Eastern Angles.
Truth Street weaves eye-witness testimony into one powerful voice that shares the poetry found in the hearts of the people who lived through this dark day in our shared social memory.
'Simple, powerful, moving.'
Brian Patten
'This piece is worth a million other words.'
Helen Mort.
Truth Street has been used as a rehearsed reading text with youth theatre groups in Liverpool. It has also been performed as a set piece reading by the writer, David Cain at the Hat Factory in Luton.
The performance at the Spark Factory, part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2017, will see the work developed in to a full 45 minute acted performance, with musical accompaniment. The piece will be read for the first time by actors, making this a premier for the show.
The piece is written by David Cain, a writer and social historian. The script is entirely taken verbatim from eye-witness accounts to the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989. As a result of events that afternoon, ninety-six men, women and children lost their lives. It remains the most serious tragedy in UK sporting history. Thousands suffered physical injury and/or long-term psychological harm. But events did not finish that day, The disaster led to a twenty-seven year fight for justice that continues to this day.
David’s work has previously been performed on radio, most notably by Cerys Matthews on BBC Radio Six Music. He is currently collaborating with DJ Ashely Beadle and renowned musicians Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Darren Morris on a new album. David has also commissioned a number of social history plays and public events, most recently Somewhere in England for Eastern Angles.
