Tender Loving Care

<i>My brother's trying to win the war. He's fighting. We should be fighting. I'm brilliant at fighting.<br/></i><br/>June 5 1944 Southsea Beach. A girl named Poppy stands on the precipice of history. Tomorrow is the biggest day of her life: D-Day.<br/><br/>Along with her friend Evie Poppy finds herself volunteering in a Southsea hospital preparing for the arrival of casualties of the D-Day landings. Poppy has always wanted to be a war hero but instead finds herself being asked to do the unthinkable - provide a German prisoner of war with compassionate and tender care.<br/><br/>A beautifully written play about the role of women on the Home Front during the Second World War <i>Tender Loving Care</i> premiered at the Square Tower Portsmouth in June 2014 in a production by The New Theatre Royal Portsmouth.