Stony Broke in No Mans Land
by John Burrows
by John Burrows
Stony Broke in No Man’s Land is a poignant comedy about two jobless ex-soldiers busking on a London street while recounting the story of Private Percy Cotton and his love for the dubious medium Nellie Mottram during and after World War I.
About The Play
About The Play
★★★★★ The New Current, International Theatre Reviews
★★★★ Theatre Cat, The Public Reviews, Plays To See, BritishTheatre.com
Returning to the Finborough Theatre by popular demand, Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, the world premiere of a new play from acclaimed playwright John Burrows.
Stony Broke in No Man’s Land, the world premiere of a new play from acclaimed playwright John Burrows stars two original members of the Number 1 chart-topping group, The Flying Pickets, in a fast-moving, comic-yet-poignant piece of storytelling.
Dressed in shabby great coats with medals pinned to their chests, two jobless ex-Tommies busking on a London street, tell in words, song and music the story of Private Percy Cotton and the love of his life, bogus-spiritualist Nellie Mottram.
The young soldier and the dubious medium… plucked from the mean streets of Woolwich in 1916, and propelled via the battlefields of France and the grand squares of Mayfair, to the highest echelons of power and the funeral in 1920 for The Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey … the funeral that might just have never happened without them.
Stony Broke in No Man’s Land reunites the writer/director and two of the cast members of >One Big Blow, the acclaimed play about coal miners and their brass band that John Burrows wrote for 7.84 Theatre Company in the early 1980s, and which spawned the a cappella group, The Flying Pickets, best known for their Christmas Number One hit, Only You.