Theatre review of The Gang of Three (Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky) at Richmond Theatre - reviewer: Shiroma Silva

Photo credit - Charlie Flint Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky have sharpened their pencils once again to scribe another political drama following on from their success with ‘The Gang of Three.’ The play is set in 1986/87 during a difficult period for print workers when Rupert Murdoch took on the unions, by sacking the unionised workforce on Fleet Street, moving his News International production to Wapping using new, less labour intense methods of production, with no unions.

A gripping true story of power, print and protest, that changed Fleet Street forever.

Tightly written and well-directed, Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s retelling of the 1986 Wapping dispute is a timely reflection on the human cost of...

A play about the mid-1980s print workers' dispute at Wapping illuminates a fraught piece of London history and a few more things besides

Ioan Phillips It’s a general rule of thumb that plays about Welsh political figures are usually compelling. The Gang of Three has a Welsh protagonist, in the form of Roy Jenkins (Hywel Morgan), but it...

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