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⛵️“Little Ships”⛵️
⭐️A Musical by Danny McAvoy
⛵️Set in 1940s the play follows the lives and adventures of Darragh and Sinéadh Geoghegan and their children Fergal, Néall, Meadhbh and Siobhán, and includes Darragh’s Irish father Sean Geoghegan and Sinéadh’s Irish mother Mary Rafferty, all of whom live together in Brixham, Devon, England. Darrah calls his children his “Little Ships” due to their familiarity with everything to do with the sea.
Darragh had a French mother, now deceased, and has a family in France including a brother called Didier Geoghegan, whose wife is called Cécile, and a sister called Émilie Bertrand.
Darrah returns from the Spanish Civil War where he fought against Franco in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He feels compelled to join his French family to continue his fight against fascism at the start of the second World war. He goes to France and whilst there he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart Claudine.
As a member of the French 1st Army, Darrah is trapped in Lille defending the allied retreat to Dunkirk.
Darrah’s children, all of whom have spent their lives in and on the sea, sail their boats to Calais to bring their father home.
They stop off at some friends in Cornwall who join them on their quest. Their now three boats are then intercepted by the British Royal Navy and escorted to Ramsgate and become a part of the flotilla of little ships that go to Dunkirk to evacuate the British and French armies that are trapped there.
At Dunkirk one of the Geoghegan boats breaks off from the flotilla and sails up the canals and rivers from Dunkirk to Lille and, after some difficulties, brings home a wounded Darrah to Brixham.
The family is happily reunited and Darragh recovers. There is an unexpected twist at the end.
The play opens and closes in 2020 with Siobhán telling her great grandchildren a bedtime story about her great adventure saving her Dadda.
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