Churchillians, Colleagues and Friends, I am pleased to announce that the fourth short play in my Churchill tetrology (How The Queen Mum Won The War), The Day Is Ours, will be given a staged reading at The Firehouse Theatre at noon on Tuesday, April 21. The Firehouse Theatre is located at 1609 West Broad Street in Richmond (VA). It's across from the Lowe's store and is near VCU.
The reading will feature John Donovan as Winston Churchill, Eric Dobbs as Bernard Baruch, Kaite Aymes as Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mum), and Heather Bailey as Vivien Leigh. Vernon Taylor and Jay May will play two Cockney dockworkers, and Jim Kilpatrick will be the voice of a BBC news reporter. The play is set at #10 Downing Street on a day in late April 1945. In the first scene Churchill chats with the dockworkers, who are serving as air wardens on the roof of #10. In the second scene Churchill and Baruch discuss the tactics by which the war is being won, the others appear, and it turns into a bizarre party celebrating the suicide of Adolf Hitler, as announced over the BBC. Donovan has previously played Churchill in the first two plays of this tetrology, Royal Colours and The Battle of Doorn. Dobbs played King George VI in Royal Colours, General Charles DeGaulle in The Battle Of Doorn, and the ghost of Richard Wagner in One Day In The Life Of Martin Bormann, the third play in the tetrology. May played the royal family's butler in Royal Colours, and Taylor played Inspector Thompson, Churchill's bodyguard, in The Battle of Doorn. The reading is free and open to the public. Parking is available on the street and in the Lowe's parking lot. If you would like further information, please contact me at [email protected], or at 804-732-8993. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
