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LITTLE WARS

2020
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A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas — with a mysterious guest.

With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat of global conflict looming, the guests — and the world around them — are close to boiling point. Everyone has a confession. Someone has a secret.

Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl McCasland’s Little Wars is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women — and a thrilling fiction based on truth.

It was workshopped Off-Off-Broadway, first performed in 2015, and received an acclaimed digital premiere in 2020, featuring Linda Bassett, Sarah Solemani, Juliet Stevenson and Sophie Thompson. It provides glorious opportunities for an all-female cast to play some of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

‘Starry cast sparkle as squabbling literary legends’THE GUARDIAN (5★)

WRITER
Steven Carl McCasland
DIRECTOR
Hannah Chissick
PRODUCER / CASTING / GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Thomas Hopkins
PRODUCER
Michael Quinn
PRODUCER
Guy Chapman
PRODUCER
Bailey Harris-Kelly
ALICE B. TOKLAS
Catherine Russell
GERTRUDE STEIN
Linda Bassett
BERNADETTE
Natasha Karp
MURIEL GARDNER
Sarah Solemani
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Juliet Stevenson
DOROTHY PARKER
Debbie Chazen
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Sophie Thompson

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