Nina Bawden’s heart-warming, funny and evocative coming-of-age tale, is based on her own childhood experiences as an evacuee in Wales during the War. In the 1940s, Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are wartime evacuees, sent from London to the mining valleys in Wales. Along with over a million other English children at the outset of World War II, they are sent to safety in the countryside as part of “Operation Pied Piper”. They find themselves plunged into a strange new world of rural living with dangers and adventures of its own and encounter a group of characters who will change Carrie’s life forever: from the tyrannical Mr Evans, kind-hearted Auntie Lou, eccentric Mrs Gotobed, to the brilliant young Albert Sandwich and Hepzibah Green, the ‘witch’ at Druid’s Bottom who makes a perfect apple pie. And then there’s the ancient skull with its terrifying curse… Emma Reeve’s adaptation of Carrie’s War is a magical and beautifully staged production which perfectly captures the original book and was first produced to great acclaim at the Lillian Baylis Theatre at Sadler’s Wells in 2006.