Solo play written and performed by Nicholas Collett about his father's service on the Atlantic convoys during the Second World War.
Nicholas Collett brings his solo play Mettle to Hoole Community Centre on Friday 6 November, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. It's part of the Cheshire Rural Touring Arts programme, and Collett wrote and performs it himself.
The play is built around his father's service on the Atlantic convoys during the Second World War—experiences the elder Collett kept private for many years. Collett brings them out into the open, weaving together accounts of dangerous seas, U-boat attacks and family life. He works his way between the father he knew and the wartime years that shaped him, and in doing so, the show becomes a personal story of love, loss and the relationship between a father and a son. It's described as moving and funny in equal measure, and it's a solo piece, so it's just Collett on stage.
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Collett is an award-winning actor, and Mettle is presented as part of the Cheshire Rural Touring Arts programme, which brings professional theatre to smaller venues across the region. The performance is suitable for adult audiences. It runs from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at Hoole Community Centre, Westminster Road, Hoole, Chester, CH2 3AP.
