Without Malice or Ill Will is Ray Castleton's one man play dealing with the impact of the 1984/5 miners' strike.
The writer and actor will perform his miner turned copper a monologue on Friday, June 7,at 7pm and Saturday, June 8, 2pm and 7pm, at the National Coal Mining Museum England, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Book tickets via the Museum website for £10 at https://www.ncm.org.uk/whats-on/without-malice-or-ill-will/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR30x5tIZsjDCyHRNtvWq35WdZ4aEo1-POtf0r-3exEna00Yw_q2-nku5-g_aem_AYaDHq8w-ut828WnkWpaaFzPvmu4OXvPJldzN54uhi2xr2MzQfIOWmuEfWPcgrkEdQ_-JqtwVoP5e4IU49GgYJZl
The writer and actor will perform his miner turned copper a monologue on Friday, June 7,at 7pm and Saturday, June 8, 2pm and 7pm, at the National Coal Mining Museum England, in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Book tickets via the Museum website for £10 at https://www.ncm.org.uk/whats-on/without-malice-or-ill-will/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR30x5tIZsjDCyHRNtvWq35WdZ4aEo1-POtf0r-3exEna00Yw_q2-nku5-g_aem_AYaDHq8w-ut828WnkWpaaFzPvmu4OXvPJldzN54uhi2xr2MzQfIOWmuEfWPcgrkEdQ_-JqtwVoP5e4IU49GgYJZl
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00:00 My name is Ray Casselton and I'm very pleased and honoured that the National Coal Mining
00:07 Museum for England have asked me to perform my play Without Malice or Real Will at the
00:12 museum as part of their events to mark the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike,
00:21 which was 1984-1985.
00:25 The play, which is a one-man monologue, tells the story of Geoff Marsh. He started his working
00:31 life as a miner, but ten years later his uncle, who was a police officer, talked him out of
00:37 the mines and into the police force. Ten years after that, he was facing his old colleagues,
00:43 friends and community across the picky lines.
00:49 Now he's retired, obviously, and he's free from the shatters of the uniform, so he's
00:56 free to tell his story with no punches pulled.
01:00 So yes, it's a story about the miners' strike, it's a story about the conflict between the
01:05 miners and the police, but it's more than that, because it's the story of the man in
01:10 the uniform and what he felt then, what he feels now. And it's also laced with his own
01:17 personal story, there's a love story, the story of his family, his relationship with
01:22 his parents. So it's more than just about the strike.
01:26 So please come along and see it, and support this fantastic museum that does everything
01:32 it can to keep mining history and working class history alive.
01:37 Thank you very much.
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