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Home > FEATURED-STORIES > You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy

You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy

By Caroline King - October 1, 2011Posted in : FEATURED-STORIES, Theatre

Caroline Horton - You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy When: 20th October 2011 at 7.30pm

Where: All Stretton Village Hall, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 6JR

£: Adults 7 and children 4

What is it?

You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy is set in liberated Paris 1945, and written and performed by Caroline Horton.

Christiane waits at Gare Du Nord for a train to England to be reunited her with her fiancé.  Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible Mademoiselle recounts the extraordinary tale of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire.  From a chance encounter at Cheadle tennis club, their story takes us on to cosmopolitan 1930s Paris before their inevitable separation by war.  A separation which she hopes, today, will finally come to an end. A fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman’s experience of love and war.  You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy is inspired by a shoebox full of wartime letters.

More info: Visit artsalive.co.uk or phone 01694 723378, tickets on the door.

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