
Lifeboat
by McCartney Nicola
Title:
Lifeboat
Author:
McCartney Nicola
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
58 pages
Publisher:
Concord Theatricals, Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780573116957
EAN:
9780573116957
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
198
Dimensions (mm):
127 x 204 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Winner! TMA/Barclays Equity Award for Best Show for Children and Young People 2002. Tuesday 17 September 1940: two fifteen-year-old child evacuees, Bess Walder and Beth Cummings, are fast asleep on board a steam passage ship, The City of Benares, sailing away from World War Two torn Britain and relentless German bombing. Just before midnight they are violently awoken when the ship is hit by a German torpedo and starts to sink. Bess and Beth join the stampede to the lifeboats. Then begins their desperate battle to survive, clinging on to an upturned lifeboat for a night and a day, in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Out of ninety children on board The City of Benares, Bess and Beth were among only a few who survived. Based on an extraordinary true story, Lifeboat is a tale of courage in the face of overwhelming danger, lifelong friendship and the will to survive.










