by Lee Hall

directed by Neil Arbon

From the writer of 'Billy Elliot' comes this funny and uplifting drama based on a true story.

It's 1934: a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hire a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class which leads to them embarking on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learn to become painters. Within a few years influential artists become their friends, their work appears in prestigious collections and they're celebrated throughout the British art world - but every day they work, as before, down the mine.