Bite My Thumb, Foot of the Barrel, Gravitas Entertainment, Northern Spark Theatre Company

Where there's muck there's brass ...

and there's still almost a hundred years' worth of profitable coal in the Grimley colliery seam. Yet the miners who stood firm throughout the 1984 strike now face a renewed redundancy ballot that threatens to consign both their livelihoods and a century of brass-band tradition to extinction.

Based on the 1996 hit Brit flick of the same name, Brassed Off captures perfectly both the resilience and despair of an era in which successive Conservative governments ripped out the heart of the community and then came back for its soul.

Simultaneously sad and uplifting, Brassed Off is staggeringly relevant today as the scars of wounds inflicted on Yorkshire communities during the 1984 Miners’ Strike still run deep.

This stage version retains the film's rugged humour, embattled sense of civic pride and all those memorable lines. Giving the true story of an against-all-odds struggle for the notion of community.