THE NIGHT MOSELEY TREMBLED What did happen on October 30, 1952?
attempt to discover what really happened on the night of October 30, 1952...
The Moseley Players weren’t your run-of-the-mill amateur dramatics group. Performed in local churchyards and public houses in the 1950s, their shows were often hard-hitting and controversial. The group are alleged to have inadvertently caused panic in the suburb when rehearsals for a new production went very wrong. With the help of an archive article from a 1980s edition of Moseley B13 Magazine, we COMMUNITY
Cashing in on the B-movies of the time, The Moseley Players mounted their biggest show in the shape of the science fiction drama, The Battle of The Planets (written by group member Clifford Irving). The script followed Britain’s first fictional manned spaceflight aboard the RKO281-Unicron vessel and the craft being followed back to Earth by invaders 16
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