The Winston Machine
Unmissable! Exceptional & innovative
Everything Theatre
At the height of the Blitz, Charlotte's in a passionate affair with a Spitfire pilot, fighting fascism in red lipstick and living each day like her last.
Eighty years later, Charlotte's granddaughter Becky is stuck in her hometown, singing old songs at other people’s weddings and dreaming of a better time. The 1940s are more real to Becky than her life - but when an old friend moves back to town, will she be forced to face the present?
The Winston Machine is the unmissable new show from internationally-renowned Kandinsky. It moves between the 1940s and the 2020s, between the past and its ghosts in the present to ask: what happens when there’s no war left to fight?
About Kandinsky
Kandinsky is a multi award-winning theatre company with an international reputation for outstanding collaborative theatre. A New Diorama Theatre Associate Company, previous productions include Dinomania, Trap Street, Still Ill and Dog Show.
The company has toured internationally, recently including an acclaimed run at Berlin's renowned Schaubühne Theatre and a commission from Vienna's Schauspielhaus. Shows have won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, Peter Brook Festival Award and OffWestEnd Best Ensemble.
www.kandinsky-online.com / @kandinskyonline
Photo: Guy Sanders
A typically probing and playful work from Kandinsky… shot through with music and mischief
The Guardian
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Unmissable! Exceptional & innovative
Everything Theatre
intriguing, fascinating
Whatsonstage
a slick, insightful and often very funny exploration of the distorting power of unexamined nostalgia
The Stage
Production photography: Chelsey Cliff
