SMASH’s production was at the Dovehouse Theatre
23-26th March 2011
This musical for all the family is about the invasion of a Somerset village by child evacuees from London – the Vackees – at the start of the Second World War. When the local youngsters don’t take kindly to the “invaders”, a different type of war seems imminent.
Click on a thumbnail to see the full photograph. Photographs by Catherine Ralph and Alan Faulkner.
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- The cast of The Vackees
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- The Set of The Vackees
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- BBC radio announcers
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- Kip and his mother
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- At the station – “We’re sending you to safety”
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- The Vackees arrive in Darchett Village
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- The Vackees on the train journey
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- The Darchett gang (Buzz Brown is second left)
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- Darchett gang: “Looks like the Vackees are crying and snivelling”
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- Please someone choose me: “I can do ‘Itler”
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- Aunt Luce: “I’ll take the heathen looking boy”
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- Aunt Luce: “While you’re in this house, Kip….”
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- Mr Jack: “Look over there, Kip: what do you see?”
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- Mr Duncan Constance, Vicar, Lady Holdmore
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- Lessons at the Village School
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- Lessons not quite going according to plan
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- The London blitz
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- Digging the land for victory: winning through
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- Mr Duncan Constance and Miss Laura Maybee
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- Kip: “You ain’t ever been to the pictures, Ellen?”
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- At the pictures
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- “Whose bridge do you think this is, anyway?”
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- The battle of Darchett Hill
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- Ellen and Grace: “Just for a moment, he was my Astaire”
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- The German pilot and Kip
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- The musicians
