Adapting STRIKING BACK

In partnership with Hinterland.

Kellie Hughes (Irish theatre director) and Matt Spangler (The Kite Runner) discuss their stage adaptation of Mary Manning’s saga of her role in the 1984 anti-Apartheid supermarket produce strike, a creative process that began at Hinterland (Kells) in 2018, and moved forward with a rehearsed reading at the 2019 Hinterland Festival, which drew a standing ovation from an appreciative audience, Mary Manning herself amongst them.