LG Productions

presents

‘DAM BUSTERS’

by

D. Scott Taylor

June 18 - 22 , 2025

Theatre Aquarius

190 King William St.

Hamilton

3 of our 9 cast members performed a Preview Performance on November 9, 2024 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. From left to right: Bradley Christensen (Guy Gibson); D. Scott Taylor (Playwright); Kelsey Taylor (Nurse Margaret Masters) and Christopher Wilson (John Hopgood/ Hoppy).

Check out the videos here

KickStarter campaign funds will go to:

1) assembling the creative team,

2) hiring professional actors and crew

3) covering the costs of Theatre Aquarius, 190 King William St., Hamilton.          

To hear the show’s musical numbers, hit: DamBustersOnStage YouTube button below       

In 1943 a secret plan to attack three of the largest dams in Nazi-controlled Germany was developed and practiced using 20 Lancaster Bombers, the most powerful aircraft in the world at that time. The aircrew, 25% of whom were Canadians, were hand-picked by WW2 flying ace Guy Gibson, who was ultimately awarded the RAF’s highest honour, the Victoria Cross.

This theatrical adaptation is inspired by the book ‘DAM BUSTERS: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany’, by Ted Barris. The two-month-long preparations for the raid moves the story along, but the heart of the show is the exploration of the relationships between the men and women who lived through those tumultuous times.

Our commitment to the men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force

  1. For every $1,000 raised through our KickStarter campaign, two tickets will be donated to a Royal Canadian Legion.

  2. A portion of every ticket sold will go to support the restoration and educational efforts of the nearest museum housing a Lancaster Bomber. For this show, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum will be receiving these funds.

Guy Gibson and his crew enter the Lancaster

Circa 1943

“Yes, the decent people of this world would have to remember war. Movies and radio play records

should remind this and future generations of what happened between 1936 and 1942...

So that we can never be caught on the wrong foot again”.

Excerpt from ‘Enemy Coast Ahead’

Written by Guy Gibson aged 25, 1944