Theatre 'The Frieze' reviews Jeremy Deller's
The Battle of Orgreave
. One of the pivotal moments of the 1984/85 miner's strike was re-enacted in the style of medieval re-enactments. A heritage day out and social commentary all in one: "Any rail passengers staring out of the window as they sped through south Yorkshire on June 17th would have had the double-take of their lives: 800 or so miners and policemen, in period jeans and uniforms, could be seen slogging it out in a field as if no one had bothered telling them the miners' strike of 1984-5 had long been called off."

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