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Lifeboat

Based on an extraordinary true story, Lifeboat is a tale of courage in the face of overwhelming danger, lifelong friendship and the will to survive.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1940s / WWII
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! TMA/Barclays Equity Award for Best Show for Children and Young People (2002)
Tuesday 17 September 1940: two fifteen-year-old child evacuees, Bess Walder and Beth Cummings, are fast asleep on board a steam passage ship. The City of Benares, sailing away from World War II torn Britain and relentless German bombing. Just before midnight they are violently awoken when the ship is hit by a German torpedo and starts to sink. Bess and Beth join the stampede to the lifeboats. Then begins their desperate battle to survive, clinging on to an upturned lifeboat for a night and a day in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Out of ninety children on board The City of Benares, Bess and Beth were among only a few who survived.

Based on an extraordinary true story, Lifeboat is a tale of courage in the face of overwhelming danger, lifelong friendship and the will to survive. 

Premiere Production: Lifeboat was first produced by the Catherine Wheels Theatre Company on 6th May 2002.

Characters

  • Casting: 2F
  • Casting Notes: Various other parts played by the cast.

  • BESS WALDER - from London, 15 years old.
    BETH CUMMINGS - from Liverpool, 14 years old

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    Tuesday 17 September 1940: two fifteen-year-old child evacuees, Bess Walder and Beth Cummings, are fast asleep on board a steam passage ship. The City of Benares, sailing away from World War II torn Britain and relentless German bombing. Just before midnight they are violently awoken when the ship is hit by a German torpedo and starts to sink. Bess and Beth join the stampede to the lifeboats. Then begins their desperate battle to survive, clinging on to an upturned lifeboat for a night and a day in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Out of ninety children on board The City of Benares, Bess and Beth were among only a few who survived.

    Based on an extraordinary true story, Lifeboat is a tale of courage in the face of overwhelming danger, lifelong friendship and the will to survive. 

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