A call to attention for Eastbourne audiences who have been put out to graze all summer long on musicals and farces, this production has also proved a rare treat for theatre-goers nationwide.
Performed by the revered Oxford Stage Company, it is the first national staging in more than 20 years of one of the great icons of Scottish theatre.
A defiant and compassionate celebration of the human spirit's triumph over poverty, Ena Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep was one of the flagships of the Scottish Popular theatre movement and an attempt to produce a new kind of working class drama.
It is the Thirties and in the East End of Glasgow Maggie Morrison, mother of seven, is struggling to keep it together while her husband spends his days in the local library.
When their teenage daughter leaves home in search of a better life, the family will never be the same again.
Heart-breaking yet wickedly funny, this is a raw and intimate portrait of their struggle for survival.
Starts Tues - Oct 15, 7.45pm, Wed & Sat mats 2.30pm, Tickets £11-£18, Call 01323 412000
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