We Love you Arthur by Fiona Evans

2nd - 5th July at the Headgate Theatre

Before George Michael was gay, before Madonna was British, before Bob Geldof fed the world, two teenage girls fell in love with Arthur Scargill.

"We love you Arthur" tells the story of Julie and Lisa, two girls coming of age in a community being torn apart. Growing up is never easy, especially in Easington Colliery during 1984. Achieving 'big hair' can be a problem, but how can you look like Cyndi Lauper when your dad's on strike and you can't afford food' never mind a can of extra-hold, perm-welding Elnett?

And will you ever fit in when the poster boy you adore is neither Simon Le Bon nor Adam Ant, but a middle-aged ginger bloke with a comb-over?

As chaos erupts and their families disintegrate around them' Julie and Lisa are determined to achieve their ambition of meeting their hero and unlikely love-object, Arthur Scargill.

The duo have a plan and they'll do anything to see it through - even if it involves a slightly criminal scam, and the theft of a policeman's dog...

This brilliantly comic shaggy dog story about a small Durham village, caught in the midst of the most devastating social confrontation of the late 20th century: the Miners' Strike.

Extract from cover of script published by Josef Weinberger Plays

last updated 14/04/2008