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Shadow Factory, The

  • Howard Brenton
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1940s / WWII
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9781848427396

Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.

Southampton is home to our only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But, in one of many devastating raids on the town, the Luftwaffe destroy the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory. The Government requisitions local businesses to use as shadow factories – but meets resistance. Fred Dimmock won’t give up his family laundry for anyone.

As the Dimmocks, and other families, struggle to keep control of their lives and livelihoods, a story of chaos, courage and community spirit emerges.

Telling the remarkable story of how a city triumphed over adversity, Howard Brenton's play The Shadow Factory opened Southampton's brand-new theatre, NST City, in 2018, directed by Nuffield Southampton Theatres' Director Samuel Hodges.
REVIEWS:

"A bolshy drama… unearths a fascinating piece of local history."

 The Guardian

"Ambitious and absorbing... mixes the intimate with the panoramic."

 The Times

"Brenton is a master of portraying major historical episodes on an individual human scale... it’s valuable that a play like this exists."

 Financial Times

Premiere Production: Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 2018.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, Expandable casting

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Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.

Southampton is home to our only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But, in one of many devastating raids on the town, the Luftwaffe destroy the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory. The Government requisitions local businesses to use as shadow factories – but meets resistance. Fred Dimmock won’t give up his family laundry for anyone.

As the Dimmocks, and other families, struggle to keep control of their lives and livelihoods, a story of chaos, courage and community spirit emerges.

Telling the remarkable story of how a city triumphed over adversity, Howard Brenton's play The Shadow Factory opened Southampton's brand-new theatre, NST City, in 2018, directed by Nuffield Southampton Theatres' Director Samuel Hodges.

$24.95

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