The Blitz 1940

The Blitz was an horrific time for Britain, it was moment the heart of the Britian was literally crumberling away.
Although many children were evacuated to the countryside there were still a number that remained in the cities.


Although the play itself is not soley set in the London it is important to get that feeling of coping with the conditions. I imagine your living out of a suitcase if your lucky with homes being destroyed in minute, recovering bodies out of rumble or worse recieveing news of loved ones away at war. I feel it would be a traumatic time for anyone.
I feel using this to Helen's character has given up on caring unlike Hetty she is not experinencing family away at war. Of which she has become bitter that fact that there is no one out there thinking of her. In a sense this seems a bit selfish to think of it in that way but she has no husband all she has is her daughter who she constantly critques. Maybe this is last ditch attempt to be the mother she never was.

I really wanted to get that sense of fear and dread installed into during the bomb scene. In a way this feeling can only be created by the atmosphere. Therefore when the SFX and LFX were included it did give me that real sense of the atmopshere during that time.
I will say when hearing the air raid siren it has installed that fear and panic which I can only say is what the people back then felt when that noise bellowed through the country.