Community Play - 'On Common Ground'

High Peak Community Arts  be celebratied the 75th anniversary of the Kinder Trespass with an original community play 'On Common Ground' created and presented by local people.

On Common Ground is a celebration of the struggle of ordinary people to gain access to the countryside we take for granted.

Using music, multimedia and jump-cuts through time and space, the performance - devised with the New Mills community - explores the history of the struggle and takes us into a future of imagined consequences.

Central to the show is the remarkable story of the Kinder Trespass, when a large group of young ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield defied police and local landowners to roam across the High Peaks of Derbyshire.

>> Community Play Planning Stage

The play is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Their regional manager Emma Sale said: "This play will involve lots of people in the community and encourage them to reflect and celebrate a local event, which had such long term effects on the fabric of British life. The present public debate includes issues such as responsible access to land, management of the countryside and environmental sustainability. Such issues are at the cutting edge of green tourism and continuing access to heritage, and this play will has the potential to create thought-provoking and original ideas."