Adapted from Sid Chaplin\' stories with Alex Glasgow\'s songs, this gritty musical about the coal industry in North-East England is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre companies and frequently revived.
It has been described as a hymn of unqualified praise to the miners who created a revolutionary weapon without having a revolutionary intent..
Adapted from Sid Chaplin\' stories with Alex Glasgow\'s songs, this gritty musical about the coal industry in North-East England is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre companies and frequently revived