Starring
Don Maclean, Malcolm Stent, Lizzie Wiggins, Dave Sealey in a cast of 14
Written by Malcolm Stent
Music & Lyrics by Harvey Andrews
The Midland's most successful playwright of this century, Malcolm Stent, takes his wonderful show ‘Go And Play Up Your Own End’ on the road.
"It was a phrase heard a lot when we were little boys growing up in working-class areas on opposing sides of the city. A city whose craftsmen built the carriages of The Orient Express, whose factories made motorbikes that broke world speed records and crafted motor cars for the gentry. A city renowned for the manufacture of aircraft, guns, tanks as well as fine jewellery to adorn the world’s well-to-do.
In those days Birmingham and the West Midlands were known as the workshops of the world, anything of value that could be bashed out of a bit of metal was made here. Times may have changed, but thankfully the pragmatic Brummie and Black Country spirit and ingenuity remains”.
And that, in a nutshell, is the plot of the show. A group of neighbours fight against the odds to re-build their lives, relationships and the city of their birth in a Britain made bankrupt by two world wars.
The story is told with humour and song by some of the region's most loved actors and full supporting cast.
