Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a musical giving voice to the working-class women whose lives were changed by alochol Gin Craze is set during the 18th-century moral panic about working-class women drinking a newly invented, potent form of alcohol: gin. They not only drank it, they found a new economic freedom in selling it and worshipped it as a semi-divine "mother". Today we still talk ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AM on December 21, 2020