The Song of the Shirt

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.

Director: Jonathan Curling

Cast

Martha Gibson Geraldine Pilgrim Anna McNiff Liz Myers Jill Greenhalgh Sally Cranfield Paul Bentall Fraser Cains

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