The Darkling Plain by Bea Roberts -
A Ripping Yarn gone Rancid!
“Well golly it’s all an adventure isn’t it? I bought my own helmet look!”
In the chipper drawing room of his suburban home Dickie Carruthers, 16 3/4’s, can’t ruddy wait for his first war! But little does Dickie know the trials, confusions and cockneys that war will unleash.
Inspired by the film work of Noël Coward, in particular Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, the play is a satire which follows the fortunes of the cut glass and cocktails Carruthers and their salt of the earth cockanee counterparts, the Smiths, as the two families go to war. But this is no war against the Jerrys, instead our plucky young heros will be fighting the war against terror, if only they can work out what that is....
What happens when 1940s' pomp and pluck is pitted against terror? Can Mrs Carruthers maintain control of an unruly WI? Will cook ever find her glass eye amongst all that blancmange?
Come and join us for a giddy and gin sodden re-imagining of the 2008 hit production. The Darkling Plain; a unique fusion of 1940s’ melodrama, Ealing-inspired farce and darkly comic pathos.
11th & 12th July, 7.30 pm
Tobacco Factory Theatre, Raleigh Road, Bristol
Tickets now available!
Part of the award-winning Pride Bristol Festival, 9 – 17 July 2011
