MEET TOMMY ATKINS  ***Special 10th Anniversary Performance???***

Peter Gill's singlehander performance 'Meet Tommy Atkins' celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special performance at the Cheltenham Playhouse. Originally written to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War the play has since been performed all over the United Kingdom and also in France and Belgium to great critical and audience acclaim. During the covid pandemic Peter also turned the story into a very well received novel. The play takes the audience not just through Tommy's First World War experiences, but also his life back home in Britain post war. We learn of his life in the trenches - fighting on the Somme, at Passchendaele and Loos; and also of the boredom, the loss and indeed the comradeship. Returning to Britain, Tommy shows us how a generation of returning men were maltreated but how ultimately it was his generation that forced through the foundations of the Welfare State.

Expect to be shed a tear and release a laugh during this moving portrayal that is suitable for all audiences.

'Compelling, moving, insightful and believable....beautifully written and performed'

Stage Talk Magazine

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