The background to this highly praised and imaginatively staged play is the true story of the sinking of the SS City of Benares by a German U Boat in September 1940. Two evacuees, aged 14 and 15 at the time, survived a terrifying ordeal by clinging to an upturned lifeboat for 19 hours.

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