Historia Theatre Company

It is June 1916. A 6 year old girl, Joan Burbridge, watches as her father wraps up a packet of chocolate for the brave soldiers at the front. A thought strikes her: “How will the soldier know the chocolate is from me?” Her father obligingly writes on the packet: “From Little Joan, Whiterock, Wadebridge, Cornwall.”

Six weeks later, a green field envelope arrives, addressed to Little Joan. Inside is a letter, the first of many, from Bombardier Edwin Hassall, at the Somme.

The true story of the letters from The Chocolate Soldier to Little Joan and her father, is told movingly and amusingly, by three actors, in a cabaret style performance with poetry and popular songs from the period.