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NURSING LIVES Coming to Marlowe Studio, Canterbury

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A HEART-WARMING wartime tale of bravery and love comes to The Marlowe Studio next month (April).

Vamos Theatre, the UK's leading full-mask theatre company, return to the Canterbury venue with their national touring production of Nursing Lives. This love story is set in the early 1980s of Thatcher's Britain. When Flo, a feisty seventy-something, learns that the hospital she trained at during the Second World War is being demolished, she decides to take one last look and stop the bulldozers in their tracks. Her illicit visit becomes a personal celebration of friendship, courage, adventure and romance.

The show, performed with no spoken words, features characterful masks, period music, swing dance and vintage costumes and in Vamos's hands, it is one of the most engaging, human, and personal theatre experiences around.

Nursing Lives has been praised by the BBC as "thoroughly thought-provoking and charmingly funny," and by The Guardian as "an affecting, heartfelt production that's funny and touching in turn."

Nursing Lives, recommended for those aged 12 and over, is at The Marlowe Studio at 8pm on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April. Tickets, priced £12 (concessions available; booking fee applies) are from the Box Office on 01227 787787 or marlowetheatre.com.

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