White Rose

Synopsis/Company

White Rose, unseen since its hugely successful debut at the 1985 Edinburgh Festival, is a powerful triangular love story about men and women fighting in the air, on the ground and in the bedroom. One thousand extremely talented women pilots volunteered for the Red Air Force during the Second World War. An impressive thirty Citations of Hero of the Soviet Union went to women pilots, and three regiments of the Air Force were made up entirely of women, some of whom, like Lily, became legendary combat pilots. Seen from the point of view of Lily and her mechanic Ina, two women in a male dominated world, White Rose offers an insight into modern warfare and concepts of patriotism that are as relevant today as they were then, within an exciting, moving and thought provoking theatrical experience.


Performers Lesley Harcourt, Robert Jack, Alison O'Donnell. Author Peter Arnott. Corporate Sponsor Borders Brewery. Company Firebrand Theatre Company (in collaboration with Heart of Hawick). Director Richard Baron. Design Edward Lipscomb. Lighting Kate Bonney.