Locally written Drama to debut at Lest We Forget ANZAC event

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15 April 2011

Locally written Drama to debut at Lest We Forget ANZAC event

Set in Broads Green underground railway shelter, ‘Nylons and Knicker Elastic’ by Nelson’s award winning author, TJ Ramsay, tells the story of nine very different women and girls who find themselves thrown together for the duration of an air raid.

“Broads Green was a real underground railway station which was bombed in 1940. Though this play is set in 1943, ‘Nylons and Knicker Elastic’ is a remembrance of such times, places and people who met through extraordinary circumstances” says TJ.

The cast is aged from 9-79 and Jackie Ramsay, who plays the part of ‘Violet’, was a young child in London during World War Two and remembers being told to ‘Sing, Jackie, sing!’ as the bombs fell. ‘When the play starts and the sirens sound, I feel, just for a moment, exactly the way I did back then. It’s proving to be a very profound kind of experience….’, Jackie says.

The set, a replica shelter is also being used in the Lest We Forget Education Programme being run by the Dramatix Theatre Development Trust for several Nelson primary schools, as part of the living history experience being offered this week.

Nylons and Knicker Elastic opens on Saturday April 23 at 8pm in the Nelson Pine Theatre (Energy Centre) at Nelson’s Founders Heritage Park. It then plays daily during the Lest We Forget event on April 24th and 25th at 1pm and again at 3pm. Entry is $10.

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