It’s well worth a visit to the Little Theatre to see this production. Ticket prices from only £12!
In this 80th anniversary year of D-Day you’d think the story of D-Day would be well known, especially if you were a D-Day veteran.
But it’s not widely known that the success of the invasion was snatched from the jaws of failure thanks to efforts of one man.
James Stagg was a man for a humble Scottish family who’s life long passionate interest in the weather led him to join a new profession at the time – meteorology.
The thrilling true story of how Stagg persuaded Eisenhower to delay D-Day is told in the play Pressure written by David Haig (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The thick of It).
The story starts on the Friday before D-Day when everybody and everything is ready to go on Operation Overlord, everything that is, except the weather.
It’s been beautifully sunny for 6 weeks and Krick the US weatherman thinks the fine weather will continue.
But James Stagg the head of the Allied Met Unit predicts stormy weather and rough seas.
Eisenhower has to make the final decision.
We know the outcome but how it happened is a thrilling tale, particularly for D-Day veteran Harry Howorth 103 who will be the VIP guest on the last night Saturday 2nd March.
Pressure is on at 7.30pm tonight and Saturday at Southport Little Theatre.
