America Ground: The Musical

Hastings based playwright John Knowles and musician Bob Tipler have created a play with songs, very loosely based on the history of the America Ground area of Hastings. The America Ground was an area of shingle beach that was settled on in the late 18th and 19th Century with its residents paying no rent as the land apparently had no owners.

The play is actually an allegory concerning today’s housing crisis and issues of land ownership which has a particular relevance to Hastings and many seaside towns today. With the huge rise in house and rent prices, the surge in second homes and holiday lets over the last few years, secure accommodation is a real issue for many people.

With thanks to funding from Historic England and Arts Council England.

Please purchase tickets from: https://ticketpass.org/event/EXJRTH/america-ground-the-musical