Flare Path
Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing, Wednesday, January 27, to Saturday, January 30, 7.30pm, 2.30pm matinees, from £24.50, 01903 206206
BRIGHTON-BASED playwright Terence Rattigan drew on his own experiences as a Second World War tail gunner for this 1942 hit play.
And it proved a hit – with then Prime Minister Winston Churchill describing it as a “masterpiece of understatement... but then we are rather good at understatement arent’ we?”
Revived by the team behind the First World War drama Birdsong, the play follows both the fighter crews and the women they leave behind on the night of a dangerous raid over Germany.
Thrown into the mix is a love triangle between actress Patricia, her RAF bomber pilot husband Teddy and her former Hollywood idol lover Peter Kyle.
This touring production stars Graham Seed of The Archers and EastEnder Charlie G Hawkins.
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