Thursday 20th - Saturday 22nd October 2005
Performance times: 19:45
Sat 22ndMatinee: 15:00

in the Main Auditorum at the Kenneth More Theatre

Box Office : 020 8553 4466
(credit cards bookings available)

To mark the 200th anniversary of Nelson’s victory at the battle of Trafalgar the Wanstead Players will be presenting Terence Rattigan’s play ‘Bequest to the Nation’ at the Kenneth More theatre, Ilford, from Thursday 20th – Saturday 22nd October.

‘Bequest to the Nation’ is a superbly crafted play by one of Britain’s major playwrights. Set in London in the days immediately preceding Nelson’s departure for Cadiz and the confrontation with the French and Spanish fleets off Cape Trafalgar – a confrontation which resulted in an historic victory but Nelson’s own death – the play traces the final days spent with his mistress Emma Hamilton. It deals with the censure by his family and the naval authorities, of his relationship with Emma and the conflict between his desire to remain with her and the call to respond to a unique opportunity to inflict a final defeat on the enemy fleet.

Terence Rattigan has written an intensely human play; a play written with historical accuracy and which paints a fascinating portrait of Nelson both as an extraordinary hero and as a man with weaknesses common to all men.

200 years on ‘Bequest to the Nation’ is an opportunity to look afresh at the man who stands at the top of the monument in Trafalgar Square.

Please visit the links for more information
www.seabritain2005.com
www.trafalgar200.com