Poverty, water, rain, industry, leaking roofs, cold religion and the cruelty of the militia. Coyote Dream Theatre filled a small part of Dorset with the waking dream of a Calder Valley resisting the implementation of the Poor Laws - broad Yorkshire vowels and all. Based on real events from the local resistance in 1838 to the imposition of the Poor Law Amendment Act, led by local MP John Fielden. The performance takes its name from a old song:
Poverty, poverty knock!
Me loom is a-saying all day.
Poverty, poverty knock!
Gaffer’s too skinny to pay.
Poverty, Poverty knock!
Keepin’ one eye on the clock.
Ah know ah can guttle
When ah hear me shuttle
Go: Poverty, poverty knock!
Played by an excellent group of traditional musicians from the Old Lane Inn, Halifax.
Coyote Dream meets on Monday nights at Holme Street Arts Centre in Hebden Bridge. All enquiries to Christina Hooley: 01422 843544.
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