Showtime for Peterloo playing Jun 7th, 2019 at 9:00 PM - Playhouse
"Mike Leigh's most lavish canvas, his most politically charged, his most electric epic... an uncompromising, uncompromised masterpiece: in ravishing moment after ravaging moment" - NPR
Manchester, 1819: a period of famine after the Napoleonic Wars leads to increasing radicalism among working people. Their demands for reform horrify the authorities, leading to the violent suppression of a major demonstration at St Peter’s Field.
“Full of thunderous passions, Mike Leigh’s urgent grassroots epic about an infamous 1819 massacre of peaceful protesters by cavalry is a whole lot of movie. Peterloo is meticulously crafted, every scene drawing you in... [ return to movie page ]
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