Pride, a new musical at London’s National Theatre, tells the true story of a London-based activist group, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) who helped financially support the members of the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley colliery community during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The musical is based on the 2014 film, Pride, which tells the unlikely story of two communities coming together to fight prejudices and government policies and forging lifelong friendships. “Pride’s always felt to me like a romantic comedy between two ostensibly hostile entities, who eventually become soulmates,” says Matthew Warchus, director of both the original film and the new musical (as well as being the outgoing artistic director of the Old Vic theatre, and director of blockbuster film and stage adaptations of Matilda). “There’s something about Pride’s emotional heart on its sleeve that made it perfect … and a musical felt like a lovely, social way of appreciating the story, to hear the audience as part of it.”
Pride – The Musical!
