Scuttlers, the playwright's latest drama, is about the gangs of street-fighting kids who terrorised 19th-century Ancoats with belts and blades"After the 2011 riots," says Rona Munro, "I was doing some digging around. I realised that you could take the coverage of the 19th-century street riots in Manchester" and it would be the same stuff."And so her new play Scuttlers was born, a thrash through the brutal stories of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PM on February 16, 2015