Titchfield Festival Theatre - "The Last Train to Nibroc" by Arlene Hutton

It's December 1940. America is on the brink of war. On an east bound train from California are the bodies of the great American writers Nathaniel West and F Scott Fitzgerald. Also on board is a charming young flyer, Raleigh who meets May, a bookish and religious missionary girl . They discover that they live in neighbouring Kentucky towns but philosophical and class differences lead to a fractious relationship.

Raleigh has been discharged from the Air Force on medical grounds and, inspired by the dead writers, he is heading for New York to become a writer. We meet the pair again 18 months later at the Nibroc Festival. May has become a teacher and is dating an itinerant preacher. Raleigh has been working in a factory in Detroit to support his poor sharecropper family. The couple are still arguing when we meet them for a third time on the porch of May’s house as they watch a distant timber yard burn.

Last Train to Nibroc is the first part of a trilogy of plays featuring May and Raleigh by the acclaimed American writer Arlene Hutton

This Titchfield Festival Theatre production of Last Train to Nibroc is a heady mix of love, war, trains and Bluegrass. Throw in a little religion and politics and the result is an electrifying comedy drama.

Performances start at 7.30 pm every night at at St Margarets Arts, St Margarets Lane,Titchfield PO14 4GB.

Tickets from £9.00 with the usual concessions. For more information and to book on line go to http://tinyurl.com/rng5t or call the Box Office on 01329 556156.

Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Repeats: Every Day until Saturday, December 03, 2011