One Day When We Were Young

Synopsis

When Leonard and Violet embark on their first night together, they know it also might be their last. It’s 1942 and in a small hotel room in Bath, the couple prepare for Leonard’s departure to war, and dream of what the future may bring. As the V1 bombs begin to fall, they know their world won’t ever be the same again. But the world keeps turning and in the year 2002, the couple must decide what was lost and what was gained. A play about the impact of the Second World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than sixty years.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 26 September 2012

Shoreditch Town Hall

Here's a lively new initiative: three short, sharp plays; four clever actors; and a travelling 138-seater "roundabout" wooden theatre in a fine collaboration between Paines Plough, Sheffield Theatres and the re-born Shoreditch Town Hall.

The plays - Nick Payne's One Day When We Were Young, Duncan Macmillan's Lungs and Penelope Skinner's The Sound of Heavy Rain - were seen in Sheffield last autumn and are playing separately in repertoire and as a trilogy on the weekends.

  In One Day, a young couple, both virgins, are seen going to bed in a Bath hotel in 1942, a watershed moment as Leonard (Andrew Sheridan) is going off to fight. They fumble through an air raid. They eat Bourneville chocolate. They exchange presents and promises.

Twenty years later, Violet (Maia Alexander, making a wonderful debut, straight from RADA), now married to someone else, meets Len once again in a loc...

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