LIVE THEATRE: Don't miss true love story Please Come Home

TICKETS are selling well for a forthcoming play at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil which is set during the Second World War and based around the true-life love story about a local girl who fell in love with an American GI.

Please Come Home has been poignantly written by Lynn Lee Brown, well-known in the area for her work with the Castaway Theatre Group and the Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society, as the story centres around the whirlwind romance of her own mother and her father, American GI Sgt Edward Vincent Lee.

The Swan Theatre will be hosting the play from July 23-25, 2015, with evening performances at 7.45pm and a Saturday (July 25) matinee.

PHOTO - ABOVE: All smiles during rehearsals for Please Come Home cast members (from left) Toni Pincombe, Kerrie Froude, Amanda Lowder and Lucy Crane.

PHOTO - RIGHT: Please Come Home cast members Kerrie Froude and David Smith in rehearsals.

Around 12,000 American troops were stationed around Yeovil during the war ahead of the D-Day Normandy Landings of 1944.

Lynn’s parents met in November 1943 and they courted, fell in love and her mother became pregnant – but then in early June 1944 the Americans, including Edward, suddenly disappeared overnight as they got ready for D-Day.

Lynn never met her father and many years later discovered that he survived the war, but had died in the 1960s at the age of 43.

But she also found that she had two half-sisters and a half-brother living in America.

She has spent several years writing the play and has admitted it has been an “emotional rollercoaster” because of its content and being so close to home and with her beloved mum having passed away a few years ago.

But the Swan Theatre will be the perfect venue for the play as it stands just a stone’s throw away from where Lynn’s parents first met back in 1943 in Park   Street.

Tickets are priced £10 and available from 01935-414662. Book now to avoid disappointment.

PHOTO - ABOVE: Please Come Home creator Lynn Lee Brown with a photograph of the father she never met - American GI Sgt Edward Vincent Lee.

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