As part of this years Remembrance and Armistice commemoration Bloomin' Good Productions are touring three gentle, thoughtful comedies around Shropshire. On Friday 31st October they are at Blackburn Theatre Prestfelde School, Shrewsbury.
The evening features the Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Sir Tom Stoppard (famous for Shakespeare In Love). It's a snapshot of three eccentric WW1 veterans plotting a hopeless escape from their French retirement home. Reviewers describe the humour as being akin to The Last of the Summer Wine.
This one-act play will be accompanied by two new pieces written by local writer Tim Baker.
Set in God's Waiting Room, Lions Led By Donkeys, which references the formation of the Poppy movement, puts Field Marshall Douglas Haig in the spotlight. Challenged over his role in the Great War can he defend his tactics which resulted in two million British Casualties.
In The Last Lion we meet American Rifleman Henry Gunter. What was his unique contribution to The Great War?
An enjoyable evening is promised proving comedy can be the very best way to be respectful.
Tickets available from ticketsource.co.uk/heroes or on the door.