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EVENT INFORMATION
Wednesday 25 February 2026
19:00 - 21:20
Studio
£15 / £12.50 Concessions
Plus booking fee £1.50 per ticket online/phone. Age 11+.

Commissioned by Show Racism the Red Card to tour the UK during Black History Month.

Our Little Hour is a musical play by award winning writer Dougie Blaxland & celebrated composer Chris Anthony dramatising the inspirational life story of the late, great Walter Tull.

The grandson of a Barbadian slave and orphaned at just eight years old, Walter rose to prominence against all odds to become the first Black British footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in England, and the first non-white British Army Officer. Recommended for the Military Cross – an award which has still not been honoured – he was tragically killed in action in 1918 just weeks before the end of World War 1.

Age 11+.

Reviews

The spontaneous standing ovation that greeted the cast at the end of the show was testament to the quality of a deeply moving new production that is undoubtedly worthy of a run in the West End. – Yorkshire Post

Our Little Hour is a powerful and very moving account of Tull’s life, cleverly resurrecting Walter as narrator, along with his parents, to trace his journey from Kent to an orphanage in Bethnal Green, and from North London and Northampton to the battlefields of northern France. – Stage Talk Magazine

The harrowing reality of the First World War, the raw passion of football and various musical numbers might not seem like elements that would work together. But Our Little Hour does combine all of these elements very successfully to tell the story of Northampton footballing legend Walter Tull in an incredibly polished production. – Northampton Chronicle

A cast of just three actors command the stage with assurance and precision throughout this fast-paced and beautifully constructed musical drama. – Bristol World

The musical’s powerful lyrics turn each song into an important and impactful moment in a compelling narrative that had the New Theatre Royal audience fully gripped and engaged. – Daily Echo

If you made a list of people who really ought to be famous in Britain’s recent history – but aren’t – Walter Tull would be somewhere near the top. A local hero in Northampton, we have a statue of him at the Guildhall, and there’s a Walter Tull House and even Walter Tull Way skirts around Northampton Town’s football ground at Sixfields. But who was he? That’s the question that Dougie Blaxland and Chris Anthony answer in their quite brilliant and intimate musical play Our Little Hour. – The Real Chris Sparkle

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