All My Pretty Ones

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The play is based on true historical life events. 

Audience members may find some of the scenes and references to war upsetting.

Three young medical students, one German, one French, and one British, have attended a medical conference in Limoges, France. After the conference they decide to travel together to La Riviere.

Due to a heavy storm, they become stranded at station late at night in a deserted town. They are rescued by Maurice who owns an auberge Les Quatre Vents.

Soon, strange happenings occur, the discovering of a diary from the war, sounds of music, songs and voices from the past. The audience is transported back to 1944 and the inhabitants of the former farmhouse are brought back to life.

The story begins to unfold.  The three young people embark on a journey where they discover the tragic past of, ‘Oradour sur Glane,’ the French village whose inhabitants were attacked by the Nazis, 10th June 1944. They also discover disturbing links from 1944 to themselves.

Written by Patrick B Hayes

The tragic tale of Oradour Sur Glane.

The 10^th of June was a warm sunny day and the residents of Oradour sur Glane, a sleepy, quiet village tucked away in the calm countryside of south west France were enjoying their Saturday morning. School would finish early, the hotel was looking forward to guests arriving for the fishing and Saturday also meant the collection of tobacco ration by local famers. On the radio only a few days earlier there was relief and even joy at the news that the allies had landed in Normandy several hundred miles away to the north. Surely liberation from years of Nazi tyranny was at hand? 

Little did they know that by sunset their village would be destroyed, left in ruins and nearly all of its inhabitants would lie dead after the feared SS from the Das Reich regiment had murdered every man, woman and child they could find.  It was to be France’s worst civilian atrocity during the Second World War. The reason for the appalling destruction has never been come to light. There are several theories which have been put forward, revenge for a kidnapped SS Officer, stolen Nazi gold, and a case of mistaken identity.