Apollo Theatre Company

Apollo Theatre Company bring Nina Bawden's well-loved novel Carrie's War
to the stage in a feast of storytelling and nostalgia for the whole family.

When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small village in the Welsh countryside. Billeted with the kind but timid Auntie Lou and her miserly brother, Mr Evans, the children quickly learn that this is a place unlike any they have ever known and begin to discover the joys, and terrors, the countryside possesses.

From the whispering woods of Druid's Grove to the harvest fields, the
children get to know and love their new world and the characters that
inhabit it; the aging, glamorous Mrs Gotobed, Mr Johnny, who speaks a language all of his own, and Hepzibah Green, the mysterious housekeeper with her tales of magic and wonder and a terrifying curse...