The Scotsman 4 March 2022
Outside the theatre where Yes! Yes! UCS! is being staged, you’ll see a blackboard. Audiences are free to chalk up messages on the way out. The other night, someone wrote, “Power to the people!” That’s the kind of show it is.
Written by Neil Gore for Townsend Productions, it is a play with songs about the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ dispute of 1971. In the summer of that year, the workers took control of John Brown and Co’s shipyard in Clydebank. Led by charismatic shop steward Jimmy Reid, they stood up for their threatened jobs not by going on strike, but by staging a work-in. [READ MORE]