The Brylcreem Boys by Peter Durrant
Directed by Jenny Gammon
Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington
Directed by Mark Ireson
Performances: Tuesday 19th - Saturday 23rd August 2008, Prompt Corner
The Brylcreem Boys by Peter Durrant
A drama based on true events which happened to the playwright’s father when he entered an RAF hospital ward in 1944 where young pilots of a Lancaster aircraft were recovering from a bombing mission. The seven-man crew relive their experiences. With both humorous and deeply touching moments, they bring the terror of flying on a bombing raid into enemy territory graphically to life on stage. Little do they know they are always under the watchful eye of the Ward Sister.
Cast
George – RAF Ground Sentry Chris Learmonth
Bruce – Engineer Paul Baker
Breeding – Navigator Jon Creighton
Buzz – Mid-Upper Gunner James Watson
Sven – Bomb aimer Gary Dodd
Shorty – Rear Gunner Ashley Woodfield
Skipper – Pilot Richard Nield
Sarge – RAF regiment James Hough
Ward Sister - Jenny McLaughlin
For more details, please contact Jenny Gammon, Director
Be My Baby by Amanda Whittington
England 1964. The sixties weren't swinging for girls like Mary, nineteen, single and seven months pregnant. Bundled off to St Saviour's, a church-run mother and baby home to avoid the stigma of being a single mother, arrangements are made for their babies to be adopted immediately they are born. Despite being cut off from their families and the daily battles with a no-nonsense Matron, the girls in the home find comfort in each other's friendship, but ultimately they must face their individual tragedies alone.
Set to the uplifting sounds of 60s girl group pop by The Shangri-Las, The Dixie Cups and The Ronettes, Be My Baby follows Mary and her fellow inmates as they cling to youthful fantasies of romance and marriage but instead are drawn inexorably towards outraged but powerless adulthood.
Cast
Mary - Kat Madriaga
Dolores - Sinéad O'Neill
Queenie - Ruth Huggett
Norma - Suzanne Morgan
Matron - Vanessa Colls
Mrs Adams - Jan Horne
For more details, please contact Mark Ireson, Director
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