Number 8 Community Arts Centre

Testament of Youth

Saturday 13th November 2010
7.30pm

Performed by Rohan Mccullough

Rohan McCullough (recently seen at Number 8 in The Tale of Beatrix Potter) portrays the story of Vera Brittain, a young woman who abandoned her studies at the outbreak of the First World War to serve as a volunteer nurse witnessing the horrors of trench warfare.  In 1933 Vera published Testament of Youth, a haunting autobiography that conveyed to an entire generation the essence of their common experience of war.  It was a best seller in both Britain and America. Rohan’s dramatic interpretation of the autobiography won the Scotsman Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

"Rohan…has a sensitive understanding of my mother’s writing, and sometimes seems almost to become the young nurse who wrote the diary…I strongly commend her presentation."  Shirley Williams

Tickets: £10 (Students £8)

Running Time: 95mins (inc interval)