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The show has been written and produced by Bradford based poet and showman Glyn Watkins and David Pendleton, director of the Bantamspast museum at Valley Parade, and is subtitled 'The City of Bradford, Bradford City, the FA Cup and the War To End Wars'. It includes projected images and a guest appearance by the FA Cup, made by former Bradford jewellers Fattorini's who also made a new FA Cup for the 1911 Cup final, which Bradford City won by beating Newcastle United 1-0 in a replay, after a 0 - 0 draw.
The show tells the largely forgotten tale of the earliest days of Manningham FC the rugby club that became Bradford City in 1903; and how City then went on to become one of the most powerful clubs in Edwardian England, bringing the new FA Cup back to the town where it had been made. It includes the stories of the nine former City players who were killed fighting in World War I, including Cup heroes Jimmy Speirs, who scored the winning goal, and Robert Torrance, who was married at Bradford Parish Church (now the Cathedral) in 1915, killed in 1918, and one of tens of thousands of World War I British and Empire casualties with no known grave.
The show starts at 7.30pm but the Cathedral will be open from 6.30pm for a tour - which will include the fascinating World War I stained glass window and the memorial to those who lost their lives in the fire in 1985 - and to give people a chance to see the FA Cup.
Entry is free with donations appreciated towards the Cathedral's Artspace project.
