April 16, 1945 - Wireless Operator at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Wireless Operator is a one-man play, a portrait of a young man struggling to to survive the trauma of a horrifying night in a Lancaster Bomber, compiled from memoirs, reports and log books.  Even for the fortunate ones who returned home after serving in Bomber Command physically unscathed, few returned without psychological scars. 

From the website:

This compelling play is told through the eyes and ears of the wireless operator. Confined in the claustrophobic aircraft the young crew struggle to survive. They avoid searchlights and flak; witness fellow airmen blown out of the sky and plunge into zero gravity corkscrew manoeuvres to evade enemy aircraft.

As they unleash their deadly cargo onto the city below, the wireless operator agonises about the real cost of their mission.

The play reveals the triggers to the lifelong legacy that traumatised those airmen who survived.

After playing to rave reviews in 2019, the play is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2020, then will head on a UK tour.

Read more at https://wirelessoperator.co.uk/