Narvik (Faber Drama)

"A thrillingly theatrical encapsulation of a little-known theatre of war." - GuardianLizzie Nunnery’s play with music captures bittersweet memories of the North Atlantic convoys as documentary meets melancholy balladPresent day. Liverpool. All alone, an old man falls in a basement and loses consciousness. World War II. Norway. A young sailor with a heart full of hope, longing and courage falls in love. A Liverpudlian man and a Norwegian woman are pulled together and torn apart by war as the events of one summer cause ripples across an ocean of time.A play with songs, Narvik by Lizzie Nunnery premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio in September 2015 in a Box of Tricks production and was revived for a UK tour in January 2017.