Savage Amusement (1978)

Written by Peter Flannery, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, London. Revived by Contact Theatre, Manchester in 1980.
Music Soundtrack by Mick Ford and Robert Hickson. Savage Amusement revolves around five young people living in a Manchester squat in 1982, 4 years in the future. The play depicts the social unrest bubbling in the city which would lead to riots in real life only a few years later. The music was hard, raw, heavily influenced by the punk revolution of 1976.