New Perspectives’ Open Pitch present sixTeen by Lisa McKenzie and Jayne Williams.

One Year. One Estate, Where childhood meets reality.

Sutton-in-Ashfield, 1984. The miners’ strike rages, but this isn’t the story you’ve heard before. This is Carsic Estate and a girl’s-eye view of a world built by industry, broken by policy, and handed down without a map.

Set in Thatcher’s Britain but echoing loudly in Starmer’s era, this is not a history play. It’s a warning shot. A raw, unflinching coming-of-age story, of working-class teenage girlsand women finding their voices, fighting back, and rewriting the rules.

This play was developed through Open Pitch, a unique programme by East Midlands’ leading theatre company New Perspectives, which believes everyone is creative and that theatre exists all around us.

Presented as an unplugged performance by 3 actors, featuring a question and answer session with Dr. Lisa McKenzie.