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‘We Are The Lions, Mr. Manager!’: Is the story of the Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike of 1976-78 and inspirational strike-leader Jayaben Desai, one of many newly arrived Gujurati workers from East Africa. It has tremendous contemporary relevance (immigration, workplace exploitation, women's rights, racism and human dignity), and is told in Townsend Productions’ accessible, imaginative, entertaining theatrical style with songs and music of the 1970s. This is social history presented in an entertaining, participatory and engaging way. It contains a serious message delivered in an energetic and comedic manner.

Forty years ago a group of workers in a backstreet London factory, in Willesden, stood up to their unfair bosses and kick-started one of the longest and most important industrial disputes in British history. Led by Asian women, the Grunwick strike challenged stereotypes, changed the face of white, male trade unions, and inspired others to speak out against injustice.