Patience & U EXIT NOW (rehearsed reading of selected scenes)

Patience
by Nina Berry

In 1842 a bill is passed by Parliament, prohibiting all female labour underground. In 1984 thousands of miners are locked in a bitter dispute with Thatcher’s government. In 2022 a site is set to become the country’s first new deep coal mine in over 30 years.

Patience is a portrait of life across a stretch of Cumbrian coastline, mapping the ebbs and flows and the loves and losses of a mining community’s motherline, spanning three centuries as past, present and future worlds collide in a heart-wrenching tale of untold stories about the power of community and a symphony of echoes through time.

U EXIT NOW
by Daneka Etchells

A car breaks down. Wires unravel. Libra is waiting for the AA. Jae is preparing to blow up the Caldbeck transmitter. Past and present flicker: the looming influx of second homes, fracturing communities, rotting roots; as Jae’s uncle Milo prepares for war and Jae falls in love with the enemy.

Performed in English and Cumbrian dialect, U EXIT NOW explores skint Cumbria and asks who does our own landscape belong to?

Both Patience and U EXIT NOW were developed as part of TBTL and Paines Plough’s Tour The Writer artist development programme. 

This event is available as part of the CumbriaFest Friday Evening ticket and the CumbriaFest Friday Festival Pass.