The microcosm of one terraced house in a changing world. It’s the sixties in Liverpool and the dockworkers and seafarers are on strike. With picketing, marches and jailings right on their doorstep, the McDermotts fight, laugh, lie and sing their way through challenging times.

Fuelled by home-brewed banana beer and a tea-chest bass, Jack croons the classics, Jerry sings skiffle and beat and Mum belts out the old bawdy sailor’s songs... ‘Keep the noise down love, Z-Cars is on.’

Red Ladder noisily reconnect with their radical and political brand of theatre in a new production written by Chumbawumba’s Boff Whalley.