LIVE THEATRE: Please Come Home at the Swan Theatre

LIVE THEATRE: Please Come Home at the Swan Theatre

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.LIVE THEATRE: Please Come Home at the Swan Theatre

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.

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 or knew her father, but many years later discovered that he survived the war, but had died in the 1960s at the age of just 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.

Cast members of Please Come Home went over to the HaynesInternationalMotorMuseum at Sparkford to do some publicity photos in full costume.

Lynn said she would like to thank the museum for allowing them to use some of the museum’s exhibits for the backdrop for photos.

More photos from the photocall at Haynes Motor Museum can be found on these links:

PHOTO GALLERY 1: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2015/06/17/please-come-home-pt-1-june-23-2015/ .

PHOTO GALLERY 2: http://www.yeovilpress.co.uk/blog/2015/06/17/please-come-home-pt-2-june-23-2015/ .

LIVE THEATRE: Please Come Home at the Swan Theatre

LIVE THEATRE: Please Come Home at the Swan Theatre

PHOTOS: All taken during a photocall at the Haynes International Motor Museum at Sparkford.

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