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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…
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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.
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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.
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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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