Scouts in Bondage

Synopsis

The follow-up to last year's hit, Boys Of The Empire! We go aboard Imperial Airways with four intrepid English boy scouts who are on their way to British India for a jamboree with scouts from all over the globe (most of which is owned by us, anyway). Naturally, villainy is afoot - again. They crash land in Afghanistan, a dangerous wilderness where outlaws of the east plot against the white races and threaten the stability of the Raj. Can these strong, brave and honest boys defeat the Afghan hordes and make it a country safe to camp in - rather like England! You'll just have to wait and see in a ripping story of bare knees, young pluck and stern endeavour.

Our Review:

18 November 2009

Enter a lost world where men were men, boys were boys and boy scouts were - well, something else altogether. In the tradition of Ripping Yarns, with a nod to the double entendre world of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and the Carry On films, we find ourselves in the company of four lads from the First Little Poddington Scout Troupe. The boys are on their way to British India for a jamboree with scouts from all over the Empire when their plane is hijacked and crash lands in Afghanistan. From then on it’s dastardly deeds meets scout ingenuity as they face and foil a plot that threatens the stability of the British Raj.

Who’s who and where their loyalties lie is not always clear but the plucky four succeed in their endeavours and learn more than a few things about themselves; never more so than in the play’s final revelations.

Set against a painted backdrop of the world in the 1930s, an image of an ...

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