BRITAIN was at war when the Nonentities’ latest production Flare Path was first staged.

The play, by Terence Rattigan, offers the audience a chance to meet the airmen and their wives fighting for their country in the British Air Force.

Flare Path will be performed at The Rose Theatre in Kidderminster from Monday, October 7 to Saturday, October 12.

Set in The Falcon, a small hotel in Lincolnshire, the play focuses on the lives of the airmen stationed at the local RAF base.

It explores the worries, fears, hopes and trials faced by the men and their families.

Written and performed in the middle of the Second World War, the play is based on Rattigan’s own experiences as a tail gunner.

The Nonentities are inviting the audience to meet characters such as Peter Kyle, the British film actor who is determined to whisk away his ex-lover Patricia.

Patricia is now married to Teddy, a “Flight Loot up at the station” and must decide where her heart truly lies.

There is also Maudie, who only has one night to visit her husband Dave, the air gunner in Teddy’s crew and Doris, the Countess Skriczevinsky, whose husband, the Count, is a member of the Polish Squadron.

Corporal Jones and the crew’s adjutant Swanson, a “shocking type” according to Teddy, and Mrs Oakes who runs the Falcon with the help of Percy, the barman, will also be at the hotel.

A Rose Theatre spokeswoman said: “All these characters come together to tell a heart-felt, often humorous and occasionally devastating story of life in wartime Britain.

“We think this play will move modern audiences almost as deeply as it did those who first saw it in 1942.”

For more information visit rosetheatre.co.uk