tony wailey

George Garrett, Merchant Seaman, writer, playwright and founder member of Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, was a radical activist who travelled the world and wrote a series of short stories, stage plays and documentary reports about poverty and struggle in the 1920’s and 30’s.
This introduction to his work has been published to celebrate the launch of the George Garrett Archive, a Heritage Lottery funded project by Writing on the Wall, designed to preserve, protect and celebrate his legacy, and bring his work to a new generation of readers.