Wednesday 4 October - Saturday 14 October

Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent

September 1938. Neville Chamberlain has averted another catastrophic conflict in Europe, but there isn’t much peace at The Pelican – a pub in a poor part of Burslem known as The Sytch.

While a Male Voice Choir practices in the back room, dirty deals are done in the cellars beneath; subversive ideas take root and forbidden love is kindling. As the world hurtles to the brink of war once more, a community finds it must pull together or fall apart.