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Audio Play 'Dare Devil Rides To Jarama' by Neil Gore

by Neil Gore

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Spain 1936: Speedway star and daring Wall of Death motorcycle rider Clem "Dare Devil" Beckett felt his place was with Spanish people defending freedom and democracy against Franco's rising fascist armies.

Commissioned by the International Brigades Memorial Trust, this play tells his extraordinary story as part of the 80th Anniversary in 2016 of the Spanish Civil War and the formation of the International Brigades.

Part 1.
1. Salud! Brigade – Salud! (Anon.)
2. Easter 1929: Sheffield Sports Stadium, Owlerton, Sheffield
Riding in the Speedway Races (based on TT Races by Harry Gifford & Fred E Cliffe)
3. 1931: The Pits at Owlerton, Sheffield; Dirt Track Riders’ Association
4. Manchester Young Communist League (words: Ewan MacColl/music: John Kirkpatrick)
5. Hospital Hamburg, Germany
6. Fords at Dagenham
7. 1932: Wall of Death at Sheffield and Denmark
‘Dare Devil’ Beckett (based on ‘Dare Devil’ Dick by Harry Gifford & Fred E Cliffe)
8. Meeting Leda Tynsen
Handsome Young Biker (1) (based on ‘He Was A Very Handsome Young Soldier’]

Part 2
9. Kinder Scout mass trespass and Manchester Rambler (words and music: Ewan MacColl)
10. British Workers Sports Federation delegation to the Soviet Union
11. 1933: New motorbike business, Oldham Road, Manchester and marriage
Handsome Young Biker (2)
12. 1934: Belle Vue, Manchester, Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists rally
13. 1936: Aid for Spain Meeting, Manchester
14. Communist Party of Great Britain office, King Street, Covent Garden, London, meeting
Christopher Caudwell
15. Lancashire Lads (trad., new words: John Kirkpatrick)

Part 3
16. ‘On Guard For Spain!’ – a massed chant by Jack Lindsay (performed by Unity Theatre
Groups throughout the country in 1936/7 to raise funds for Spain)
17. December 18 1936 French/Spanish frontier
18. December 20 1936 Barcelona
19. December 30 1936 HQ of the International Brigade at Albecete
20. British Battalion training camp at Madrigueras
21. Weapons training
22. January 24 1937 Guard duty
23. January 25 1937 Burns’ Night celebration

Part 4
24. February 6 1937 Moving out of Madrigueras
25. February 11 1937 Move to the front near Morata De Tejuna
26. February 12 1937 First day of the Battle of Jarama

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released September 11, 2020

Produced by Townsend Theatre Productions and Hollow Moon Media

For Townsend Theatre Productions (www.townsendproductions.org.uk):

Louise Townsend (Producer & Director)
Neil Gore (Writer, Actor & Musician – banjo uke, guitar and mandolin)
David Heywood (Actor & Musician - oboe and guitar)
John Kirkpatrick (Musical Director)
Daniella Beattie (Production Lighting Designer)

Recorded by Tim Vickerstaffe and Daniella Beattie for Hollow Moon Media in Leek, Staffs, in 2017, and edited by Daniella Beattie in 2020.

Special thanks to Marlene Sidaway, Jim Jump, Meirian Jump and Charles Jepson of
The International Brigades Memorial Trust, Tosh McDonald and Unite the Union.

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Formed in 2011 and with eight plays and seven national tours to its growing name, it has played over 600 venues to a collective audience of 60,000. The company is especially well-placed to deliver impact innovation being centrally concerned with widening access to culture, taking 'theatre to non-theatre venues for audiences that find access theatre centres a challenge' ... more

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