So, better late than never we decided it would be useful to cut a wee promo vid of the project to better introduce it to the kinds of folks we’ll need on board in the months ahead. To this very end we spent yesterday with our ace film maker Sally interviewing all our key partners and collaborators. We asked them to sum up what the story of cotton famine road means to them, we got some brilliant and inspiring responses. From the centre of town we went up to Rooley Moor Road once more, and got the same sensation we do every time we go up there, the sense that big history was unfolding in minute back breaking steps on that windswept moorland as huge stones were quarried, cut and shaped into setts, then carted all the way up to the top to be laid – all by weaving folks who had never done such back breaking work before.
In other news, ok so whisper it quietly but we have a Draft One script! A pungent and powerful concoction of first hand verbatim source material, and lively character based drama. We want our stage play to give voice to those who are not in any recorded histories of this story, it’s got a way to go but there’s a lot in it. We want it to centre on people in the streets and back closes, the mill workers and their families who suffered when the cotton was stopped, the mill gates slammed shut and the hunger bit deep and hard into the spirit and resolve of these people. Our respect for them only grows stronger the more we look into this. And what’s more our promo vid will be available to view soon!
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