Let’s see how much you value your community. Your family.

Relive the turbulent era of the 1980s in Great Britain, as five friends are guided through an uncertain decade by the glow of an iridescent, hopeful light.

Growing up in the small mining village of Betteshanger, Persistent Shadows follows the lives of Benny, Sammy, Lucy, George and Paul on their journey through the 1980s during the peak of Margaret Thatcher’s reign in Parliament. The show begins in a run down pub, the group’s local safe haven, called The Leather Bottle. As the decade unfolds the audience will be taken through an episodic rollercoaster of events bullet pointed by the policies enforced by Margaret Thatcher. From the War for the Falkland Islands, the Miners Strikes and the Battle of Orgreave, to Thatcher’s Section 28 and the overarching threat of Nuclear War, audience members will discover how these events affect and mould the protagonists and their relationships; a journey bookended by the Acid House Rave Scene. Guided by a flickering light, our five friends dream of a better world.

Persistent Shadows was collaboratively written and directed by each member of Super-8-Auteur. The company was founded during the members’ final year of university. Super-8-Auteur’s inspiration and starting point for Persistent Shadows began with their interest in the acid house rave scene of 1989, however, after considerable research the company began to explore the decade of the 1980s as a whole. It became apparent during their research that the state of the world during the 1980s drew parallels to today in terms of the economical, political and emotional struggles we all face as humans in this chaotic and turbulent world.