Award-winning theatre company Something Underground is taking its new open-air show Children Of The Revolution to Haslemere Educational Museum on August 26 at 7pm.

It features the 1970s, with Jonathan Brown acting out 65 crucial moments in quick succession to a background of the soundscape of the time.

A museum spokesperson said: “What was the 70s like for you? Were you alive? Does the decade look delightful or dreary in your rear view mirror?

“In this time of soaring oil costs, tight global tensions, women’s reproductive rights under pressure, Northern Ireland back in the headlines, talent shows, the EEC in the balance, the environment battling to survive, new diseases afoot and renewed nuclear threats, who would have thought that a show that deftly delves into the decade that most echoes our own times could actually be a way to see our current world through a lens that is both hilarious and chilling by turns?

“How is it possible to witness Mr Benn changing into a spaceman, fans mourn the break-up of The Beatles, Apollo 13 astronauts fight for their lives, Ian Paisley call for ‘No Surrender’, Greenpeace being founded, decimalisation confusing the nation, the first New York Gay Pride Parade, the Munich Olympic village hostages, those Brentford Nylons adverts, the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, miners at the picket line, Ted Heath call for a three-day week, Hughie Green introduce Opportunity Knocks, the shambolic evacuation of Saigon, public information films, beachgoers in the 1976 drought, the Sex Pistols drawn at dawn, Charlie’s Angels first say ‘Good Morning Charlie!’, Thatcher enter Downing Street, Magic Roundabout, The Shah fleeing Tehran, Saddam Hussein come to power, Tony Blackburn introduce Top Of The Pops and many more moments?

“With Space Invaders, the first mobile phone, the first email, the first barcode, the first CD, Apple, the first McDonald’s, the Sony Walkman, the Intercity 125, the first test-tube baby, the first Gay Pride Parade, a whole cultural and technological revolution unfurling, all opening up new minds and new possibilities, how can you experience all this and yet stay sane in this crazy day and age?”

Something Underground said: “It’s simple!” So take a picnic, a chair and a blanket, and find out how.