Friendly Invasion
Coming to Old Buckenham Village Hall on Wednesday 24 July at 7.30pm
Tickets £12 online www.harlestonplayer.co.uk
Oversexed, overpaid and over here...in July!
Summer, 1942. The US.has entered World War II, and the first American aircrews arrive in the east of England. Along with their heavy bombers, the GIs bring cola and chewing gum, jukeboxes, jazz and the jitterbug. East Anglia will never be the same again.
80 years on, a reunion weekend at one of the airfields brings together a group of visitors, whose memories of a local girl and an American airman recreate their bitter-sweet wartime romance.
Harleston Players are teaming up with Metfield-based singing group, Station 366, plus swing dancers from the Red Feather Club at Horham airbase museum, to create Friendly Invasion - a show about the arrival of the USAAF to this area and the ways in which the presence of thousands of Americans influenced life in the region.
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