Rohilla

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Rohilla by Graham Sanderson

”It’s like the world has changed and I don’t know my way anymore. I mean, who says who lives and who dies? Why am I alive and so many dead?”

October 30th 1914. Bound on an errand of mercy to Belgium, the British hospital ship Rohilla founders in a terrible gale on the rocks only a few hundred yards off Whitby; on shore, a young woman writes to her sweetheart at the Front.

The wreck of the Rohilla forms the historical backdrop to the fictional stories of Amy Potts and Charlie Porter. Both are touched by the outbreak of WW1 as Charlie faces the horror of the trenches, while Amy finds herself at the centre of the Rohilla rescues led by the Whitby lifeboat. Both will discover that their world has changed forever.

100 years on from the astonishing story of the struggles to rescue passengers and crew from the Rohilla, an ensemble company of actors will fuse together real and imagined characters in a new drama.

With specially commissioned music and innovative direction, designed to create a web of interaction between fact and fiction, York Settlement Community Players present the world premiere of Graham Sanderson’s play, Rohilla, inspired by the true events of one of the greatest rescue attempts in the history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

“York Settlement Community Players, the original trendsetters among York’s rising tide of adventurous community theatre companies.” –  Charles Hutchinson, York Press, March 2013

Written by Graham Sanderson
Directed by Jan Kirk
Movement Direction by Elizabeth Nolan
Music by Oliver Mills
Image Design by Michael Rosser
Photography by Michael J Oakes

Friday 21 – Saturday 22 November 2014
7.30pm with additional 2:00pm Saturday matinee

Tickets: £10 / £8 (Unwaged/Under 18) / all matinee tickets £8
Box Office: 01904 613000 or book online

Please note there is a £1.50 per transaction charge if booking online. There is no transaction charge if booking by phone or in person through the Riding Lights Box Office. If you would like your tickets posted to you then there is a 50p charge to cover postage costs.

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For more information about the Centenary Commemorations for HMHS Rohilla:

www.rohillawhitbycentenary.org.uk
SS Rohilla Centenary facebook page

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. A proportion of the profits from this production will be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.