
The Winston Machine Tickets
Keep calm. Carry on. Blitz it out. Dig for history. Death to the beaches.
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Overview
At the height of the Blitz, Charlotte is in a passionate affair with a Spitfire pilot, fighting fascism in red lipstick and living each day like her last.
Eighty years later, her granddaughter Becky is stuck in her hometown, cooking dinners for her dad and singing old songs at other people's weddings, dreaming of a better time.
The 1940s are more real to Becky than her life, but when a friend moves back to town, she's forced to face the present. What happens when there’s no war left to fight?
An epic, intimate family saga, The Winston Machine is an unmissable new state-of-the-nation show from internationally-renowned Kandinsky (Dinomania, Trap Street, Still Ill), recently hailed by The New York Times for their deeply intelligent, emotionally arresting and beautifully realised theatre.
Between January - June 2022, New Diorama are offering free slices of pizza to every audience member post-show - in partnership with Domino's Camden. Visit the New Diorama website for more details.
Critic reviews
Hosker, Christian and MacDougall are all poised and beautifully confident performers
An exceptional, innovative examination of the idea of Remembrance
Playful, probing work
Striking design, smart staging
Stirring to watch and exciting to see where it goes next
It’s strongly performed
Ambitious new play that examines the iniquitous effect of nostalgia
Experimental at its core and not what one might expect
Creatives



Date & time
Thu 3 Feb 2022, 2pm Babes-in-arms matinee