{"id":482,"date":"2025-09-01T11:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:26:02","slug":"we-are-the-lions-mr-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/we-are-the-lions-mr-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are The Lions, Mr Manager!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! is the remarkable story of Jayaben Desai, the inspirational leader of the 1976-78 Grunwick strike. She not only stood up for workers rights and against oppression with selfless dedication, but with her steadfast resolve, she turned the dispute into a national movement for human rights and dignity inspiring future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Townsend productions have turned this story into a play which is coming to the Brighthelm Centre on 4 &amp; 5 November as part of a national tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketsource.co.uk\/ucsgova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ticketsource.co.uk\/ucsgova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As a foretaste here is an interview with Rukmini Sircar and Neil Gore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&#039;We Are The Lions Mr Manger&#039;- Sound bites from Rukmin Sircar &amp; Neil Gore\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HoTecmYzRYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As a special event for Brighton, on 4 November, there will be a post-show discussion on the lessons of the Grunwick Strike today with:<br>\u2022 Rukmini Sircar and Neil Gore<br>\u2022 Tanushka Marah \u2013 Theatre maker and anti-war, anti-austerity parliamentary candidate<br>\u2022 Deji Olayinka \u2013 Chair, United Tech and Allied Workers Branch of Communication Workers Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A play about the Great Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike of 1976-8, and the inspirational strike-leader Jayaben Desai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,75],"tags":[72,77,73,76,78],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","category-art-action","tag-art","tag-grunwick","tag-theatre","tag-townsend-theatre-productions","tag-trade-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveactionbh.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}