Archive listings for In the Bunker with the Ladies - A Wartime Bunker Evening in 1943
Work type: PlayT109466971 (DRILL03)Two unforgettable Christmas evenings - 50 years apart - in the long life of beautiful Clara Bowling. Last year's heartwarming Christmas treat returns, in rep with a new companion piece.Producer Drill Hall. Director Nona Sheppard. Performer Adjoa Andoh. Performer Antonia Coker. Performer Allison Harding. Performer Karen Mann. Performer Lisa McNaught. Performer Sarah Travis. | |
| 28 Nov 03 to 10 Jan 04 | RADA Studios (formely Drill Hall Arts Centre), Inner London :: V197 listing details L1851128485 |
Adjust those shoulder pads, paint on those seams and come join the Bowling sisters once again. It is 1942, fifty years on, it is Christmastime, it is London during the Blitz. The men are at war and the women are running the country. The once young, delectable and delightful Clara, with the voice of a nightingale, has become beautiful, old mother Clara with the voice of a nightingale who throws open her Chenies Street parlour as an air raid shelter to any benighted Londoner who needs it, with entertainment thrown in.
