Go and Play Up Your Own End

A group of neighbours fight to re-build their lives and the city of their birth in a Britain made bankrupt by two world wars.

Main Auditorium

Playing from Thursday 22 Mar 2012

Starring Don Maclean, Malcolm Stent, Lizzie Wiggins and

Dave Sealey

Written by Malcolm Stent

Music & Lyrics by Harvey Andrews

Go Play Up Your Own End - It was a phrase heard a lot when we were little boys growing up in working-class areas on opposing sides of the city. A city whose craftsmen built the carriages of The Orient Express, whose factories made motorbikes that broke world speed records and crafted motor cars for the gentry. A city renowned for the manufacture of aircraft, guns, tanks as well as fine jewellery to adorn the world's well-to-do.

In those days Birmingham and the West Midlands were known as the workshops of the world, anything of value that could be bashed out of a bit of metal was made here. Times may have changed, but thankfully the pragmatic Brummie and Black Country spirit and ingenuity remains".

And that, in a nutshell, is the plot of the show. A group of neighbours fight against the odds to re-build their lives, relationships and the city of their birth in a Britain made bankrupt by two world wars.

The story is told with humour and song by some of the region's most loved actors.