Production: Rohan McCullough - Testament of Youth
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Celebs:
Rohan McCullough

Description: Having battled her way to Oxford University in the face of parental opposition, Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at the outbreak of the First World War to serve as a volunteer nurse in France, where she witnessed the horrors and tragedies of trench warfare. When the War was over, Vera published her autobiography which conveyed to an entire generation the essence of their common experience of war. It was a best seller in both Britain and America.

“Superlatives here!...a remarkable performance of a remarkable woman’s early life.”
The Scotsman

“This one woman tour-de-force… Rohan McCullough’s stunning solo performance.”
Time Out

Vera Brittain’s daughter, Shirley Williams, wrote the following:
“Rohan McCullough’s performance brings my mother’s famous book on the First World War alive, bringing out the poignancy and profundity of the narrative... she sometimes seems almost to become the young nurse who wrote the diary...”