Day of Action

Day of Action was a devised play about the Black communities response to the New Cross Massacre on Sunday 18th January 1981, where thirteen young Black people died at a birthday party in a fire at 439 New Cross Road, southeast London. The far right National Front were active in the area, so it was believed by many in the Black community to be a racist arson attack. But when no arrests were made, the Black community were enraged by the apparent cover up by the London Metropolitan Police and the indifference of the mainstream media and British government.