The heat is on in ’76
It’s the summer of 1976: Eurovision glory, the Sex Pistols and a relentless heatwave. At the Trico factory in Brentford, the women are having their own Made in Dagenham moment with the UK’s longest equal pay strike.
For Valerie, swapping the assembly line for the picket line means more than taking on bullish management. It pits her against her husband, who wants to keep his factory job and cares more about Brentford FC than equal rights.
On the Line is a fictionalised play inspired by interviews with the real strikers conducted by the Questors PlayBack team, and the book Trico: A Victory to Remember by Sally Groves and Vernon Merritt. PlayBack created a companion piece, the verbatim docudrama STRIKO, which was performed on the site of the Trico factory in May of this year.
