Resurgam 1941 | The Tamaritans

(1939-1945 Plymouth: courtesy of the Imperial War Museum)

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1941 RESURGAM

9-12TH SEPTEMBER, 2021

AUTHORS JENNY & PAUL SHRYANE

DIRECTORS JENNY & PAUL SHRYANE

9TH SEPT, 7.30PM: ST PAUL'S CHURCH, DURNFORD ST. STONEHOUSE, PL1 3QW

(for Tamaritans members only)

10TH SEPT, 7.30PM: TAMARITANS, MANOR GARDENS, STONEHOUSE,
PL1 3EZ

11TH SEPT, 7PM: STOKE DAMEREL CHURCH, 85 PARADISE RD, STOKE,
PL1 5QP

12TH SEPT, 2.30PM: UNITARIAN CHURCH, NOTTE ST, CITY CENTRE,
PL1 2HG

THE PLAY

“1941 Resurgam” is a new play which lasts about 60 minutes; it focuses on one family, on the night of 21st April 1941 in the midst of the Plymouth Blitz. It tells the story of that night through the eyes of Vera, an eighteen-year-old girl, who together with her mother, her aunt and a lodger, endure the six-hour bombing raid. In the course of that night Vera comes to terms with the death of her uncle. The play reflects the realities of wartime Plymouth for an “ordinary family” and highlights the resilience of the people. It was inspired by verbatim accounts of the Blitz in Plymouth and research taken from the book “Blitz” by Gerald Wasley.