Review: Yank!, Charing Cross Theatre
“Some stories didn’t make it in to the history books” is the tagline for Charing Cross Theatre’s newest production and it couldn’t be truer. Yank!, directed by ...
World War II
Not So ‘Idle Women’ Part 2: Navigating Greater Waters
In my first guest blog, I wrote about the background to The Idle Women: Recreating the Journey – a waterways tour of a show sharing the stories of the wartime w...
Blog: Tracing the route of the not-so ‘Idle Women’ who navigated the waterways in World War II
February 2016. I had completed an MFA in creative writing. My efforts at reworking a play didn’t seem to be making much progress and The Royal Court hadn’t call...
Feature: Love, music and the horrors of war in Narvik
Themes of heroism, bravery – a struggle with identity – and a love story, underscored by an evocative musical soundscape, bring to life an often-neglected pocke...
Review: Girlfriends, Union Theatre
Joining the remembrance of Britain at war, the World War II musical Girlfriends transforms the intimate space at the Union Theatre into a Bomber Command air bas...