Lynn Morris performing as Ada Salter. Photo: Sheila Taylor.
Play to help fight against poverty
The Journeymen Theatre company performed 'Red Flag over Bermondsey' to mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Friends Lynn and David Morris were invited to perform their play about Quaker Ada Salter to mark the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The couple, who make up Journeymen Theatre, were invited by the local group of ATD (All Together in Dignity) Fourth World to put on Red Flag over Bermondsey on 19 October in Bermondsey, London. The play was written and performed by Lynn Morris, and directed by David Morris.
Sheila Taylor, from the Quaker Socialist Society, told the Friend: ‘They came at midday to the Salter statues in Bermondsey, where the Salters lived and worked, and Lynn performed a scene from the play in costume by the river in front of around twenty people. Then in the afternoon she did the full play at the ATD centre to an audience of around fifty in Addington Square. It made a tremendous impact and got a standing ovation.’
