Boomtown Gals is a new play written and performed by Joyce Branagh in response to a Heritage Lottery Fund project supported by Gateways to the First World War last year. The original project worked with three groups of residents: older people, teenagers and schoolchildren to find out about some of the women from Oldham whose lives were changed by the war. As a result of the project, they also got in touch with descendants of some of the women they researched. The wide range of women that the project focused on included nurses, doctors, factory workers and music hall artistes, and they all feature in the new play, which will be performed in September 2016 in venues in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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Here’s a trailer: