Scuttlers

It’s 1885 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and violence. This is the world’s very first industrial suburb and the young mill workers form the very first urban gangs, fighting over their territory with belts, fists and knives. Invisible in history, their lives, deaths, loves, lusts and defiant energy tell stories that will repeat for decades.

Rona Munro has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television including the award-winning playsIron (Traverse Theatre and Royal Court, London), Bold Girls (7:84 and Hampstead Theatre) andThe Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre). Other credits include The James Plays for the Edinburgh International Festival and National Theatre,The Last Witch for the Traverse Theatre and the Edinburgh International Festival,Long Time Dead for Paines Plough and the Drum Theatre Plymouth, The Indian Boy andLittle Eagles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Pandas for the Traverse in Edinburgh. She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland’s oldest continuously performing, small-scale touring theatre company, The Msfits. Their one-woman shows have toured every year since 1986. Film and television work includes the Ken Loach filmLadybird Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and television dramas Rehab (directed by Antonia Bird) and BAFTA-nominatedBumping the Odds for the BBC. She has also written many other single plays for television and contributed to series includingCasualty and Dr Who. Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving. She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter Playhouse series on BBC Radio 4.