Part 8: The Yanks Are Coming

Soldiers come to the village. There is a camp concert. 5-year old Teddy Willis is killed. Terry gets caned. Then the Americans arrive. A whole regiment of black GIs.

Includes the songs Sweet Sixteen, Bless ‘Em All and Got Any Gum, Chum?

Starring John Owen-Jones, Katy Secombe, Brandon McGuiness and Frankie Joel-Celoni. Adapted, directed and produced by Dominic Frisby.

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Kisses on a Postcard, the intensely moving musical by Terence Frisby, tells the story of two boys in WWII - Terry and Jack, aged seven and eleven, who, 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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