Manchester Jewish Museum is hosting a performance of the one-woman play Chopped Liver and Unions on Thursday 1 May to mark International Workers’ Day.

The play is based on the life of Sara Wesker, a Jewish trade unionist and activist in the Communist Party of Great Britain who led the “singing strikers” walk-out at the Rego Factory in London’s Bethnal Green in 1928, stood on the barricades at Cable Street, and fought tirelessly for East End garment workers.

Written by J.J. Leppink and performed by Lottie Walker for the Blue Fire Theatre Company, the critically acclaimed play has been performed before audiences from Edinburgh to New York and was nominated for an OffFest theatre festival award.

The show will take place in the Manchester Jewish Museum, a Grade II* listed 1874 former Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Cheetham Hill.

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