A play about the lives of military wives, girlfriends and mothers, is heading to Ilkley Playhouse next month.
Jo’s War, by Lucy Bell, charts the lives of soldiers’ sweethearts who have to continue their own lives and careers while their worst fears are played out on 24-hour news channels.
Mrs Bell, the wife of a serving Marine, has experienced life at home while her husband was on tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“In 2006 my husband rang to wish me Happy Christmas sounding tired,” she said.
“I realised he had been leading a convoy of tanks in a raid that was front page news. It gives you a strange out of body experience to have everything at stake in events that are just news to others around you.”
The play is at the playhouse on Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, at 7.30pm.
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