THE ACCRINGTON PALS
by Peter Whelan
by Peter Whelan
Wed 4 - Sat 7 March 1995 at 7.45pm
Northampton College Arts Centre, St Gregory's Road, Northampton
An intense study of the effect of the bloody Somme campaign on the women left behind by one of the many 'Pals' battalions of World War I.
The story of one of Kitchener's volunteers 'pals' battalions, raised in 1916 and butchered on the Somme.
It concentrates on the women left at home in Lancashire.
Directed by Ann Bowen, assisted by Martin Borley