A lost play about the miners’ strike by the acclaimed author behind Kes is to be performed in public for the first time, more than 30 years after it was deemed too controversial for television.
Built in the 1100s, Kelham Island was for centuries a key part of the steel city’s industrial power.
The play was found among other unpublished works in Hines’s archive, which was donated to the University of Sheffield after his death, aged 76, in March 2016.
After the Strike was written by the novelist Barry Hines in 1985 and depicted graphic scenes of police violence against striking miners at the Battle of Orgreave a year earlier.