Job Rocking
By Benjamin Zephaniah
Year staged: 1987
Opening night: 23/09/1987
Staged in: Riverside Studios
Cast Size: 7
Synopsis
Job Rocking is a lyrical imagining of a job centre in Margaret Thatcher’s England, with a club of regular members, some chasing their dream job, others accepting their life of precarity and poverty. There’s footballers, fishermen, boxers, and rock stars…but for the members of the Job Club, there are simply no jobs. That’s alright, money doesn’t always equal happiness… does it?
Original Cast
Jo Martin
Christine
Jay Simpson
Keith
Roger Griffiths
Manager
Mark Aspinall
Rocky
Sakuntala Ramanee
Sheila
Victor Romero Jones
Max / Leroy
Yvette Harris
Kay / Traffic Warden
Production Team
Anna Furse
Director
Charlie Henson
Director
Paul Burwell
Music Consultant
Jane Morley
Costumes
Charlie Paton
Lighting
Jeremy Herbert
Design
Additional Materials
Unpublished Playscript
Ref: BBPA/4/29
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