UNISON presents: Peterloo – a film by Mike Leigh
Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/09/2019
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location.
Norwich Arts Centre
St Benedicts Street,
Norwich,
,
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Event Description
Pay What You Can Afford (includes admin fee)
Screening of the film by Mike Leigh with guest speaker Roger McKenzie (UNISON Assistant Secretary General)
The brutal attack by government forces on a peaceful demonstration in St Peter’s Field Manchester, becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, the carnage evoking the Battle of Waterloo. ‘Peterloo’ tells of poor mill workers, hot-headed radicals, moderate reformers, weak magistrates, brutal police and military, a repressive government, decadent royalty and devious spies.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Mike Leigh
PRODUCED BY
Georgina Lowe
CAST
Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell, Philip Jackson, Vincent Franklin, Karl Johnson, Tim McInnerny
Running time: 154 minutes
Event Contact Information
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