Stony Broke In No Man's Land

'Let us honour if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one.' W.H. Auden

Returning to the Finborough Theatre by popular demand, Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, the world premiere of a new play from acclaimed playwright John Burrows.

Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, the world premiere of a new play from acclaimed playwright John Burrows stars two original members of the Number 1 chart-topping group, The Flying Pickets, in a fast-moving, comic-yet-poignant piece of storytelling.

Dressed in shabby great coats with medals pinned to their chests, two jobless ex-Tommies busking on a London street, tell in words, song and music the story of Private Percy Cotton and the love of his life, bogus-spiritualist Nellie Mottram.

The young soldier and the dubious medium… plucked from the mean streets of Woolwich in 1916, and propelled via the battlefields of France and the grand squares of Mayfair, to the highest echelons of power and the funeral in 1920 for The Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey … the funeral that might just have never happened without them.