23 April 2025 - The Private War of Corporal Cooper - written by John Broughton
This is a short powerful one act play,directed by Heather Graham, is set in New Zealand during World War 1. We meet Sister Mary Bartholomew, a Dominican Nun, who is a teacher at St Joseph's Convent in Dunedin. She is busy knitting socks for the war effort and decides to put her name in one of them.
When Corporal Johnny Cooper, a soldier with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force in France receives a pair her socks in a Red Cross parcel, he finds her name on a note inside. Unaware she is a nun, he writes back and a friendship is struck up.
Poignant, spiritual and dramatic, a lovely play for the Easter/Anzac time of the year.
On stage from 23 to 27 April 2025.