STRIKE! & The Only White – April & May 2023

Two new productions about anti-apartheid action and activists, showing in London theatres during April and May 2023. Find out more and book tickets (with discounted codes) below.

The Only White, is gripping retelling of a true story in a desperate fight for freedom, a story of the one white man executed for political activities in Apartheid South Africa. But it is also a story of love and courage and comradeship, and love. By Gail Louw (Writer), Anthony Shrubs (Director) and Becca Rowland (Producer). 

Mid-winter 1964, a phone rings at Johannesburg Railway Station. John Harris speaks quickly into the receiver: “This is the African Resistance Movement. We have planted a bomb, It is not our intention to harm anyone. Clear the Concourse.”

They don’t..

The bomb explodes, twenty-three are injured, one dies.

Does the end justify the means? Does one life matter?

Click HERE for more information and booking (with up to 13 half price tickets available at each performance).

STRIKE! : Southwark Playhouse : 13th April to 6th May 2023

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Design by Sean Longmore

STRIKE!, Tracey Ryan’s brilliant play about Dublin’s Dunnes department store shopworkers who refused to sell South African fruit in 1984 will run at the Southwark Playhouse, 13 April–6 May. 

At Dunne’s Store, shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to ring up a grapefruit, sticking to her union instructions not to handle South African goods, in protest of the country’s apartheid policies. Mary is immediately suspended and it’s not long before she and eight other young women and one young man, all workers at Dunne’s, are out on strike.  It’ll only last a few weeks…

Read more about the Ardent Theatre Production play STRIKE! 

Tickets for the May Day performance on 1 May are available at a reduced price of £16, using this voucher code ACTSA16 and on other nights for £20 – using voucher code ACTSA20 at the checkout. With thanks to our project collaborators ACTSA  and Arden Theatre for this code. Click HERE for booking information.