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Three pairs of women's lower halves in 80s fashion carrying a placard and megaphone. What We're Not Going Back audiences said. The Unite the Union and Red Ladder logos on placards pushed up in the bottom

We were blown away by this audience feedback

Three women dressed in 80s clothes holding hands raised in the air in protest.

We’re Not Going Back trailer

Three women stood in front of a banner reading the daughters of mother Jones

Sisterhood & celebrating what holds us together –…

Our show We’re Not Going Back, is about a family of three sisters involved in Women...

A smiling Karen Reay with shoulder length blonde hair

Unite the Union’s Karen Reay

Ten years ago, Unite North East Yorkshire and the Humber region commissioned Red Ladder Theatre Company...

Four women dressed in aprons that each read Souper Woman looking over a fence of a back to back in the 80s.

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‘Souper Woman’ Betty Cook

Writer Boff Whalley didn’t want ‘We’re Not Going Back’ to be the men’s story of the 1984/85 Miner’s Strike, instead tuning-in to the...

Our Charlie stood holding his dogeared hardback book United By The Struggle by Anne and Betty

Charlie, ‘Honorary WAPC Member’

In the mid 80s, whilst the miners’ strike was the focal point of my community, I...

Yellow NUM stickers saying Coal not Dole

A timeline of the 1984/85 miners’ strike

The 1984-1985 miners’ strike marked one of Britain’s most bitter industrial conflicts. It erupted after the...

A smiley Elvi Piper

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Elvi’s inspiration & hopes for Red Ladder favourite

The first piece of theatre I saw when I moved to Leeds 10 years ago, on maybe my second or third night in...

The 1984-85 Miner's Strike in the Durham Coalfield Easington Colliery Club. Marilyn Johnson serving lunch during the school holidays.

We’re Not Going Back by Boff Whalley

People love anniversaries. Royal Jubilees, Cup victories, Elton John’s birthday. We’re Not Going Back was written...

Francis Martin in a suit with grey hair and glasses

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My family’s shared history of mining and activism

I’m less than a month into my post as Artistic Director of Red Ladder and yet working alongside a small team who achieve...

Return of our all-female hit musical comedy to…

We’re beyond excited to announce that we’re reprising We’re Not Going Back, in collaboration with Unite the Union,...

A picture of Red Ladder Artistic Director Cheryl Martin smiling in a bright yellow v neck top

Cheryl Martin: new Red Ladder Artistic Director

We are thrilled to welcome theatre director and writer Cheryl Martin as our new Artistic Director...