The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff - Matinee and Evening

Award-winning north east folk band The Young'uns - Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes present their production of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff on the weekend of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. It's the true story of one man's journey from unemployment, through the Hunger Marches of the 1930s, the mass trespass movement and the Battle of Cable Street, to fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. A touching and often hilarious musical adventure, its themes of war, hunger, poverty and displacement have a powerful resonance almost a hundred years on.