The
Musical
Despite the Chilcot
Report's epic condemnation our politicians and generals are
still unabashed and unapologetic. Bush too. They need
skewering with laughs, music and catharsis.
The Musical Crack
On! (Oh What A Lovely Afghan War!) does just that.
Synopsis:
Teen-Aged Joe Willing can't find work anywhere, so he joins
the army! As Private Willing is training, his sergeant tells
him how they did well in Afghanistan two years earlier - how
Afghan women heaved off burkas and danced as we made the Taliban
quit.
Private Willing is desperate
to get home to his girl Jacy. His mates sing "We are
teenaged soldiers, we won't take a hit." But can he survive
the scheming of Tony Blair and George W Bush who’ve sent
him to face death in Iraq and Afghanistan? With Blair conning
parliament, singing "WM Deedle diddle you?" Can
he survive Taliban bullets and his failing commanders General
Chaos and Major Blunder with their insane drive to crack on,
even though they’re surrounded and utterly outclassed?
Their American allies
don’t rate “the bloody Brits", singing "If
I could have a few good men they wouldn't come from Sandhurst
- with arrogance like those guys have I'd cut off my right
hand first." And now Joe’s sergeant has fallen for
an Afghan woman! The Taliban are singing that they’ve
beaten the British before - "You have the watches, but
we have the time."
Who can save Private
Willing when he’s eyeball-to-eyeball with Sorab the Taliban
leader? Can he get out alive? Can he get home to his Jacy?
This rousing, powerful
new musical takes us on a journey through political satire,
desperation, hope, laughter, love and the horrors of war.
We have a screenplay,
a libretto and a CD of all the show’s 25 songs with narration,
as well as video clips of songs
workshopped at Guildford School of Acting in Surrey University.
Listen to a 10-minute
mashup of the show's songs here.
