Fresh from an acclaimed run at this Edinburgh Fringe, Townsend Productions are set to tour Neil Gore’s new play We Will Be Free, a new drama set around the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, at the Lantern Theatre on the 19th, 20th and 21st September.
Set in 1834, We Will Be Free follows the extraordinary true story of George and Betsy Loveless. He was a Methodist preacher and the leader of the six Dorsetshire farm labourers who were tried, convicted and condemned to harsh transportation by an oppressive Government for having the temerity to swear a secret oath and form a union to fight against a succession of wage cuts inflicted by the local landowner.