Written for Eastern Angles with support from Arts Council England

DIRECTOR | Poppy Rowley

CAST | Lianne Harvey, Lewys Taylor, Charlotte Ellen, Lily Howkins

Oct 26th – Nov 5th 2016 | The Undercroft, Peterborough

Siblings Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter had to leave London and “play at being poor for a bit” when their father was arrested. Now, back in the capital, the family reunited, the children turn storytellers, just like their writer mother, and recount their lives as ‘Railway Children’, living in the New England railway worker ‘Barracks’, absorbed into the lives of the characters at the now-gone Peterborough East station and its neighbouring goods depot.

Set in the wake of Dr Beeching’s scything report, in the run-up to Harold Wilson’s ‘White Heat’ speech and in the midst of Cold War fears, The Fletton Railway Children explores loss of innocence, nostalgia and a sense of belonging in an era of great change and new, uncertain beginnings.