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Marie McCarthy
SRING OFFENSIVE
2017
Written by Victoria Willing
Directed by Marie McCarthy
Welcome to the best Bed & Breakfast on the Somme…
Expat April runs a quality establishment on the site of some of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Death surrounds it. And sheep, lots of sheep.
There’s dinner to be served and history to pay tribute to. The guests are coming, the sheep are closing in. The table is set for an evening they’ll all remember.
Victoria Willing’s play is a dark comedy about war, lost boys and fighting for survival.
NOMINATED
The Stage Debut Awards 2017 for Best Writer
★★★★★
"Delivers both on bleakness and glorious belly laughter"
The Independent
★★★★
"Entertaining yet surprisingly ruthless black comedy about loss and survival"
The Stage
★★★★
"Shrewdly conveys the compromises of middle age & the foibles of Brexit-era Brits abroad’"
The Times
★★★★
"Black comedy that takes a sinister look at the trivialisation of global conflict’"
The Independent
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