a ROLE to PLAY brings together a range of contributors who live in Bolsover, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England, including workers at the Freedom Community Project and former MP Dennis Skinner, to tell their stories of the impact of economic changes brought from post-industrialisation. a ROLE to PLAY is part of WORK: four artists’ films that explore contemporary working lives in the middle of England, by Dryden Goodwin, Jenny Holt, Esther Johnson, and Adam Lewis Jacob. Made in Derby, Thrapston, Birmingham and Bolsover, the WORK films consider: the rhythms of a care worker’s day; traditional and new rural working lives – farming, forestry, and international logistics; Birmingham’s Trade Union Resource Centre film archive and collective activism; untold stories of the impact on individual lives of post-industrial economic change. Developed and produced over two years, WORK is a collaboration between: Animate Projects; QUAD, Derby; Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Thrapston, Northamptonshire; Vivid Projects, Birmingham; and Junction Arts, Chesterfield. WORK is supported by Jerwood Arts and using public funding by Arts Council England.