Location: People’s Hall
Contact: 01484 843701
Website: https://mikron.org.uk/shows/a-force-to-be-reckoned-with
Admission: £15, concessions £13
With handbag, whistle and a key to the Police Box, WPC Iris Armstrong is ready for whatever the mean streets of a 1950s market town throws at her.
Fresh from police training school, she prepares for her first day on the beat. The reality is very different. Stuck at the station, she soon finds her main jobs are typing and making brews.
Iris joins forces with fellow WPC Ruby Weston. They’re an unlikely partnership. A two-girl department, called to any case involving women and children, from troublesome teens to fraudulent fortune tellers.
What starts as ‘women’s work’ soon becomes a specialist role.
Iris finds she’s earning her place in a historic force to be reckoned with. Along the way, she discovers the Edwardian volunteers who came before her, a lineage of Suffragettes-turned-moral enforcers and the secrets that the police box hides.
In this arresting tale of law and order, join forces with Mikron as we investigate pioneering women in the police.
Established in 1972, Mikron Theatre Company have been touring professional theatre to non theatre venues by canal, river and road for over 50 years. They annually commission two new scripts with original music, that they perform ‘in rep’ touring by road in spring and autumn and, in summer, on board their historic narrowboat, Tyseley.
Their plays are rooted in social history and contemporary movements, rarely explored in an artistic context, with the specific aim of increasing audiences’ awareness of important events, their context and relevance to current issues, and in opening debate and inviting curiosity.
