A new play about Arthur Ransome and George Orwell goes on tour across East Anglia this spring and tickets are now on sale.
Produced by Eastern Angles, Red Skies is based on the coincidence that Orwell and the Ransomes were both in Southwold at the same time in 1939.
Written by Ivan Cutting, the play starts in Southwold Harbour just before the outbreak of war. where Orwell’s father was dying and Ransome, along with his wife Evgenia, were sailing out of Pin Mill. Orwell is about to write Animal Farm and intrigued that Ransome is married to the former secretary of Russia’s revolutionary leader, Trotsky. With Orwell’s suspicion of spies and the Ransomes’ inability to explain how they got out of Russia after the revolution, sparks could fly. The show follows their two stories over 20 years, when all three are in search of answers, political and personal.
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