The Shadow Factory

Cast: 4f 1m, doubling (6f 2m)

Staging: back and forth between a town and a big house

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 112 pages ISBN: 9781848427396Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound, 224 pages ISBN: 9781839043031Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook, 112 pages ISBN: 9781788500272Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
First Staged:
Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 2018

The Shadow Factory

By Howard Brenton

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A4 Spiral-bound £16.99£13.59

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Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.

Southampton is home to our only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But, in one of many devastating raids on the town, the Luftwaffe destroy the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory. The Government requisitions local businesses to use as shadow factories – but meets resistance. Fred Dimmock won’t give up his family laundry for anyone.

As the Dimmocks, and other families, struggle to keep control of their lives and livelihoods, a story of chaos, courage and community spirit emerges.

Telling the remarkable story of how a city triumphed over adversity, Howard Brenton's play The Shadow Factory opened Southampton's brand-new theatre, NST City, in 2018, directed by Nuffield Southampton Theatres' Director Samuel Hodges.


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This play is also available as an A4 Edition. With spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes, this format is ideal for directors, stage managers, actors and others to use in rehearsal and production.

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Press Quotes

'A bolshy drama… unearths a fascinating piece of local history'

Guardian

'Ambitious and absorbing... mixes the intimate with the panoramic'

The Times

'Brenton is a master of portraying major historical episodes on an individual human scale... it’s valuable that a play like this exists'

Financial Times

Cast: 4f 1m, doubling (6f 2m)

Staging:back and forth between a town and a big house

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,112 pages ISBN: 9781848427396Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound,224 pages ISBN: 9781839043031Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook,112 pages ISBN: 9781788500272Publication Date:
8 Feb 2018
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by Howard Brenton:

Never So Good
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Jude
Eternal Love
55 Days
#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Berlin Bertie
Lawrence After Arabia
Anne Boleyn
Miss Julie & Creditors
The Blinding Light
Dances of Death
Drawing the Line
Paul
Miss Julie
Creditors
Cancelling Socrates
Doctor Scroggy's War
Faust: Parts I & II

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