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World Premiere

Starts with a Letter
by Ian McMillan
Original Songs & Music by Carol Laula

Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

7th November – 7.30pm

8th November - 2.30pm & 7.30pm

She is a WAAF from Wigan going AWOL for love. He is a sailor from the Royal Navy on a 48-hour pass. Together, Olive and John risk everything in a true wartime romance told through letters exchanged during World War II.

Featuring original songs and live music from Carol Laula, “Scotland’s leading singer-songwriter” (The Herald), this new musical play brings them together where every moment feels like stolen time.

Reviews across our Productions

“…confidence and class…impressive production…powerful and promising…”
Joyce McMillan THE SCOTSMAN ★★★★

"…An intense drama full of dark humour…Malcolm Hamilton was completely inspired as Brito – edgy and dangerous one moment, comical the next. The sight of him beating a defenceless loaf of bread to death with an axe was worth the ticket price alone…Four Nights in Knaresborough is likely to become a minor classic."
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS ★★★★

"It’s a rare treat to witness this double bill of one-act miniatures by Sean Kane’s Theatre Enigma…Victoria Balnaves’s vocal settings of Mackay Brown’s words becomes even more lyrical, its incantatory chorale swelling to become a heartbreaking lament…theatrical nuggets…a pair of iridescent and beautiful unsung curios."
Neil Cooper THE HERALD ★★★★

"Theatre Enigma return to the Netherbow with their simple but powerful staging of this much praised 1986 play by former squaddie Jonathan Lewis…Keith Hutcheon’s intense production draws a memorable ensemble performance…fine cast of Scottish based actors without a single weak link."
Joyce McMillan THE SCOTSMAN ★★★★

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