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The Motor Show

An exhilarating evening which reasserts the potential for a real political theatre

Michael Coveney, Financial Times

First produced at Leys Baths, Dagenham, it enjoyed an ‘East End transfer’ to the Half Moon. Play with songs written with Paul Thompson, borrowing elements of vaudeville and music-hall, and telling in short, fast-moving scenes the history of the Ford Motor Company in Dagenham and its struggle with the trades unions – also the subject of successful British film ‘Made in Dagenham’ starring Bob Hoskins.

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The Foreman’s Song

Nobody loves the foreman,
This job is a bleedin’ dead loss.
Nobody loves the foreman,
Not even the foreman’s boss …

When I was an ordinary worker,
Life was hard but life made sense.
Since I became a foreman
I been sittin’ on the fence …

Nobody loves the foreman,
It’s a miserable kind of life.
Nobody loves the foreman,
Not even the foreman’s wife.

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