BENT Architect present Mick Martin's Women Of Aktion, or Oh, What A Lovely Revolution, at the York Theatre Royal Studio tomorrow night at 7.45pm.

The setting is the 1930s, when a young Joan Littlewood has walked out of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and stomped her way north, searching for the revolution. On reaching Manchester, she finds kindred spirits, an industrial solidarity and a determination to hear the voices of dissent at the Rusholme repertory company.

There she embarks on a production with Ernst Toller, German anarchist and ex-political prisoner, whose play, Draw The Fires, tells of the story of the Kiel Uprising that brought the First World War to its knees.

Joan, however, does not like the play, branding it all too male. "Where are the women?", she demands to know? Just as Joan’s rows with Toller shake the building, so, from the factories of northern England to the mills of northern Germany, women's voices rise up from the depths. Together, they issue a revolutionary call that renounces militarism and brings the madness of war to an end.

In this imagined piece, directed by Jude Wright, Bent Architect weave newly unearthed verbatim histories of the women of Kiel with the radical force of Littlewood in her early Manchester years. Those voices now resound afresh, to reveal a new, hitherto barely considered truth about a war that engulfed the world, only brought to a close when ordinary people rejected conflict in favour of peace.

Tickets are on sale at £12.50 on 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk