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Dateline: 6th March, 2009
Children's Classic for the West End Nina Bawden’s best-selling novel Carrie’s War, based on the author’s own childhood experiences as an evacuee in Wales during the War, has been adapted for stage by Emma Reeves and will open for limited season at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II on 3rd September. Andrew Loudon directs a cast which includes Sarah Edwardson as Carrie and Prunella Scales as Mrs Gotobed, with James Beddard and Amanda Symonds. Further casting will be announced shortly. Nina Bawden CBE is one of Britain’s most distinguished and best loved novelists both for children and adults. She has published over forty novels, including her autobiography In My Own Time and Dear Austen, a powerful essay to her late husband Austen Kark, who was killed in the Potters Bar train crash in 2002. Nina was movingly portrayed by actress Kika Markham in The Permanent Way, David Hare’s polemic against railway privatisation. In 2004 Nina Bawden received the S.T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime’s Contribution to Literature. Emma Reeves' writing credits include adult drama, children's drama, radio and the stage. Her TV credits include The Story of Tracy Beaker, Doctors, Belonging, The Murder of Princess Diana and an adaptation of Until The Real Thing Comes Along. Her adaptation of Little Women ran in the West End in 2004, and her adaptation of Carrie's War was staged previously at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells. Carrie's War, which has twice been adapted for television, is produced for the stage by Novel Theatre in association with Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer for Nimax Theatres.
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