My Tutu Went AWOL, To Iraq and Back in a Doily Frock

  
When:Fri 08-Nov-2024 @ 18:45
Where:Village Hall, Child Okeford
3 The Hollow
Child Okeford
Dorset
DT11 8EX
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Event Website:https://www.childokeford.org/events/vintage-a-drama-presented-by-compact/
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An evening of entertainment with lestyn Edwards
Friday 8th November

Doors open 6.45pm for 7.30pm
Child Okeford Village Hall
Bar and Raffle

Tickets £15 (Available from Child Okeford Village Shop – on sale from 1st October)

This is a Child Okeford WI fundraising event with proceeds going to
Friends of North Dorset Women’s Refuge. lestyn Edwards is an Olivier Award
winning Guildhall trained opera singer, international variety headliner and after
dinner speaker,

Edwards talks about being the Combined Services Entertainment ‘ experiment’,
sent out to entertain British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan during the conflicts
Wearing what 42 Commando nicknamed ‘ a frock of many doilies’…as heard of
BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, Loose Ends and Saturday Live.

‘Achingly funny’ – Daily Mail
‘A rare and perfect synthesis of art and larkiness’The Times
‘Spreads a bow-wave of happiness’Dame Joanna Lumley


 

Event Code: [CHILD]