GUTS: Live Radio Play (work in progress) Presented by Emer Morris and Fish Workers. In collaboration with Hannah Stephens, Polly Letitia Joy Rowley-Sams, Milla Harding, Bidi Iredale, Annabel Fox and Carly Jane Hutchison.
“You worked in threes. two gutted and one packed. Every girl that gutted had a gut tub…she flung her guts into it.” Annie Watt, Herring Worker
Up to 10,000 Herring Workers/ Fesh Quines /Herring Lassies/ Gutters travelled the Herring ports of the east coast, from the Shetlands and the Highlands all the way to East Anglia, gutting 60 fish a minute. These self organised women crews Struck on issues of pay and conditions – and won.
What can we learn from these legendary workers?
This Live Radio Play uses the testimony of fish workers past and present to delve into world fish work now and the future. Recorded in front of a live audience on Saturday 2nd October 2021 at Camden People's Theatre London, as part of the Shape of Things To Come.
Release date: 15 October 2021
GUTS is a multimedia focused on uncovering and celebrating fishworkers and the communities they come from in the past and present and future. Using verbatim, audio history, participation action research, song, radio play this project seeks out the untold stories of people involved in fishwork up and down the east coast of the UK. See Below for audio pieces produced so far in development:
Following the Fish Workers: The Journey GUTS: Live Radio Play Fishworkers on COP