Our Preview Performance
On Remembrance day weekend inside the hangar of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (home of the Lancaster Bomber), 3 of our 9 actors performed a selection of songs for a very appreciative audience.
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The Story
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 move 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.
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