Carrie's War
From: Thursday, 23rd November 2006
To: Saturday, 6 January 2007
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Synopsis
Carrie's War is based on the best-selling book by Nina Bawden. Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with mean Mr Evans; but there’s also kind Auntie Lou, and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid’s Grove who makes a perfect apple pie, and young Albert Sandwich, who kisses Carrie on her twelfth birthday. And then there’s the ancient skull with its terrifying curse...
Our Review:
30 November 2006
Anyone arriving in this country from abroad must find it a strange British anomaly that for one month in the year, theatre suddenly becomes the province of children. For the rest of the year it's as though, with a few honourable exceptions, they don't exist. So, in this season of infant excess, Nina Bawden's Carrie's War comes as a more than pleasant addition.
Coming from the same stable that brought us last year's surprise seasonal hit, Little Women and before that, Anne of Green Gables, Andrew Loudon and Emma Reeves' latest adaptation has the inestimable bonus of appealing to young and old alike – a nostalgic trip for those of a certain age, an absorbing tale of growing up and moral choices for younger spectators.
Children's tales so often exude an irredeemably twee tone as though caught in some calcified time warp of Victorian middle England. Nina Bawden's modern classic does the inestimable service of making her two teenage prota...
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Nina Bawden (Book)
Novel Theatre (Company)
Emma Reeves (Adaptation)
Andrew Loudon (Director)
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