May 18, 2022 • 35M

Part 1: Goodbye to Mum Goodbye to London

Kisses on a Postcard, a musical by Terence Frisby

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It is 1940. Two boys from London, Terry and Jack, aged seven and eleven, are being evacuated to escape German bombing. They end up in Cornwall, where they spend the next four years. The intensely moving musical by Terence Frisby tells the unforgettable story of those boys and their "second childhood". Full of surprising humour and memorable songs, this is a unique portrait of an extraordinary time in British history. "Enchanting, profoundly moving and delightful," Charles Spencer, the Telegraph. Starring John Owen-Jones, Katie Secombe, Rosie Cavaliero, Marcia Warren, Evie Hoskins, Ian Virgo, James Clyde, Peter Temple and others.
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(From the full 4-hour show) Terry and Jack (aged 7 and 11) say goodbye to Mum and Dad.

Along with the rest of the of their school, they set off by train. Nobody knows where they are going or who’ll they be staying with, but they end up in a tiny village in Cornwall.

Starring John Owen-Jones, Katy Secombe and Rosie Cavaliero.

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Kisses on a Postcard, this intensely moving musical by Terence Frisby, tells the story of two boys in WWII. In 1940, Terry and Jack, aged seven and eleven, to escape German bombing, are evacuated from their family in south-east London to a tiny village in Cornwall, where they spend the next four years.

Full of surprising humour and memorable songs, this is unique portrait of an extraordinary time in British history.

“Enchanting, profoundly moving and delightful,” Charles Spencer, the Telegraph.

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