Peterloo

Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre - Auditorium
Film - Mainstream

Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gathered in Manchester to demand democratic reform. Stars Rory Kinnear and Maxine Peake.