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Neil Gore returns with his one person Magic Lantern show of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists adapted by him from the classic novel by Robert Tressell.  Features projection, political conjuring tricks, live music and song.  Meet the famous characters and enjoy the scenes, speeches and songs, featuring the Great Money Trick as its centrepiece.

It’s a novel that deftly suggests that the interests of the workers and their bosses are incompatible, and that workers collude in their own oppression.

Tressell’s novel – often called “the worker’s bible” and published four years after his death and burial in a pauper’s grave in Liverpool in 1911 – provided inspiration for the growing Labour movement and the establishment of the welfare state.

Ticket price: £16.50, Booking fee: £1.70