In September 1934, residents of the newly-built Florence Park estate went on rent strike in protest at the conditions they were expected to live in by developer of the estate Fred Moss who built 600 houses for migrant workers at the Morris Motors and Pressed Steel factories in East Oxford. These workers had migrated from South Wales, Tyneside and the North, areas hit hard by the Great Depression into homes, built cheaply by unskilled labourers that were starting to fall apart.
After months of ignored complaints, the residents of the Florence Park estate embarked on a rent strike, during which they faced intimidation and evictions. Little Edens tells this story.
After a sell-out run at the Museum of Oxford in 2023, Little Edens returns to the museum as the final instalment of The Oxford Trilogy, marking 90 years since the strike.
Little Edens will be performed on Saturday 7 December
Matinee performance: 2.30pm (doors open 2pm).
Evening performance: 5.30pm (doors open 5pm).
Approximate running time is 1 hour 25 minutes, including interval. A paid bar will be available before the show and during the interval.
Tickets are available online for £9.92 (booking fee applies) or at the Museum Shop £8.50.
Little Edens is written by Peter Cann and directed by Tim Eyres.
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