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The Lion and the Unicorn

Dates:
2 October 2024 12:00am - 12:00am

Address:

Theatre Royal Winchester, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8SB
The Lion and the Unicorn

About The Lion and the Unicorn

On the evening of 13th October 1939, six weeks after war has been declared on Hitler's Germany, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, opponents for years, meet together with their wives, Clementine and Anne, for a private dinner.



Prime Minister Chamberlain has seen all his efforts to negotiate peace with Hitler shattered. Churchill has been recalled to the cabinet after ten years, his dire warnings of the Nazi threat vindicated.


History tells us this was the only time the four ever met alone together socially. There is no official record as to what transpired during that unique evening…


Presented as a radio-play-live-on-stage - the setting is a radio studio, the actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and the sound effects created live on stage, all combining to transport the audience to wartime London, as Crime And Comedy Theatre Company bring to life the first ever production of this fascinating new drama.




Tickets from £15 per person.


Performances at 14:30 & 19:30.

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