A Force to be Reckoned With
Pioneering women in the police
26 & 28 Jul 19:00
- Writer & Lyricist : Amanda Whittington
- Composer : Greg Last
- Director : Gitika Buttoo
- Music Director & Arranger : Dan McGlade
- Set & Costume Designer : Celia Perkin
With handbag, whistle and a key to the Police Box, WPC Iris Armstrong is ready for whatever the mean streets of a 1950s market town throws at her.
Fresh from police training school, she prepares for her first day on the beat. The reality is very different. Stuck at the station, she soon finds her main jobs are typing and making brews.
Iris joins forces with fellow WPC Ruby Roberts. They’re an unlikely partnership. A two-girl department, called to any case involving women and children, from troublesome teens to fraudulent fortune tellers.
What starts as ‘women’s work’ soon becomes a specialist role.
Iris finds she’s earning her place in a historic force to be reckoned with. Along the way, she discovers the Edwardian volunteers who came before her, a lineage of Suffragettes-turned-moral enforcers and the secrets that the police box hides.
In this arresting tale of law and order, join forces with Mikron as we investigate pioneering women in the police.
Where and when
The Rowbarge, Station Road, Woolhampton, Reading, RG7 5SH
- Wed 26th Jul - 7.00PM
Goring Lock, Goring, RG8 9AE
- Fri 28th Jul - 7.00PM
