MayWorks strives to promote art that challenges the status quo, and challenges audiences to re-evaluate their attitudes towards community, art and work. At a time when working-class people across the globe are under attack, it is essential we talk about the kind of world we want. MayWorks '96 brings together activists and artists to create and exchange ideas and images of the society we want to build. We feature artists whose work reflects positive visions of change. Alternative visions of society are especially important now.
Corporate culture dominates.
MayWorks '96 will create and present images of the kind of world we want, and spark discussion about where we go from here. Great Britain 1993. He's damned if he's going to let his daughter settle for a second-hand dress, but his desperate attempts to come up with the necessary cash for a new one soon land him in some heavy trouble. . . The gags range from deadpan Northern banter to slapstick and scatology, but they don't overshadow the political acuity of Jim Allen's script, or the narrative's inexorable progress into the stuff of everyday nightmare. This is no rant, but a warm, unsentimental tribute to the working-class spirit.