Outside:
a wet Friday afternoon in Stroud; inside: a spare set, two tables, two chairs,
John Bassett and Kim Baker in 'Tommy Atkins and the Canary Girl'.
Outside:
muffled drone of traffic, occasional motor bike and bicycle bell; inside: letters,
telegrams, postcards, duckboards, trenches, no man's land, mud, shell holes,
barbed wire, mustard gas, the dead and dying, lice, shell shock, rationing,
girls with phossie jaw and yellow hands, 12 hour shifts, 25 bob a week,
ambulances, hospitals, nurses, barrenness, conscription, unemployment and a war
to end all wars.
Kim and
John transported us all utterly into the internal above with their interplay of
characters, snatches of songs and poems. If I was that nervous about the fact
that I had forgotten about turning off my mobile ' phone, what must it have
been like waiting for that whistle to send you over the top or waiting for that
telegram?
Totally
recommended - I am looking forward so much to teaming up with John and Kim next
year on our 2014 Stroud and Gloucester WW1 centenary productions and workshops.
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