Immersive Tea Dance Drama THINK OF ENGLAND comes to VAULT Festival 2018

Fresh from a rural UK tour, Anonymous is a Woman Theatre Company brings Think Of England to VAULT Festival 2018. This immersive production will recreate 1940s London and the air raid shelter that was originally situated under Waterloo Station, transporting the audience back to wartime dangers and exhilaration of tea dances.

The war office has employed Bette and Vera to travel the country hosting tea dances to boost morale. However, the women's real purpose is to send the young men off to fight having experienced all of life's pleasures.

Based on a real-life war time scandal that threatened to destroy these women's lives, audiences will join in with the unforgettable dance and rousing song while witnessing the story unfolding around them. When the RAF boys discover the real reason for the dance, will the news tear the already splintered RAF crew apart?

Continually adapting to fit its venue, the play will take on a new significance at the Vaults shifting to London during the Blitz era. Think Of England is an invitation to dance the night away.

Producers Leila Sykes and Pip Brignall comment, Everywhere we went on tour the show resonated in a different way based on that community's war time history and we are so excited to bring this new adaptation to a space which has such a rich legacy. Sharing this immersive experience with VAULT's audience in a venue that was one of the most bombed areas in the Blitz yet still used as an air raid shelter will bring an extra level of poignancy to Madeline Gould's powerful drama.

Tickets are available priced at £13 from www.vaultfestival.com.

Anonymous Is A Woman Theatre Company (AIAWTC) was founded by two Drama Centre London Graduates, Bips Mawson and Leila Sykes as a response to women's underrepresentation in society, history and thus in theatre. They make innovative, challenging and collaborative theatre with women at its centre, working with established plays, adaptations and new writing to give voice to those who may not have been heard. They are feminists in the sense that they believe in equality between the sexes and want to re-address the balance and representation of women in theatre. The company works with male and female actors, directors and writers, and is female-centric only in the selection of its subject matter.

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