Shake the City at Leeds Playhouse

Name: Shake the City at Leeds Playhouse
Start: 2022-04-22T19:00:00
End: 2022-04-23T20:10:00
Location: Leeds Playhouse

Nadja Moncolova, Contributor Posted 12 April 2022

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Shake the City

Leeds Playhouse, Leeds

22-23 April 2022

Date

Time

Session Features

22 Apr 2022

7:00 pm-8:10 pm

23 Apr 2022

7:00 pm-8:10 pm

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

From £5.00

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Shake the City allows you to hear the unheard voices of brilliant northern women and observe the very essence of female friendship, grit and empowerment. Join the extraordinary Women of Harehills to celebrate their quirks, pain and triumphs and stand with them to Shake The City at Leeds Playhouse. All this accompanied by brilliant Northern Soul music and brought to the stage by an exciting northern creative team and cast.

This play is based on the clothworkers strike in Leeds, 1970.

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