“My Darling Clemmie” – one woman show at Stockton Heath

STAGE and screen actress Rohan McCullough is to appear in a powerful one-woman performance at Stockton Heath Methodist Church, on Walton Road, for one night on April 3.
“My Darling Clemmie” is a moving portrayal of Winston Churchill’s devoted wife, Clementine.
Written by Hugh Whitemore, the show focuses on an extraordinary relationship that endures not only the immense pressures of Churchill’s rise to power and the fury of war, but also his single-minded and often near-impossible behaviour.
Yet largely through an astute understanding of his complex character and her own willingness to play the role of the dutiful wife she stoically made the sacrifices that their relationship demanded. It seems that perhaps Churchill understood this.
He once described persuading Clemmie to marry him as “My most brilliant achievement.”
Tickets cost just £10 and can be obtained from the CARE UK shop in the Cockhedge centre, booked by ringing 01925 264179 or can purchased on the door.
All profits will go the CARE UK Charity Homes Team that works in Warrington helping to provide basic needs for living in the way of kitchen items, bedding, furniture, curtains and other household needs for those setting up home after fleeing domestic abuse, coming out of care and homelessness. These people are often given a new place to live but with nothing in it – CARE UK try to change this from an empty house to a home, using items that are donated but need money for the items they don’t have or can’t recycle.
Rohan McCullough trained for the stage at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and began her career in the original cast of the legendary musical “Hair” and Jean-Louis Barrault’s Rabelais.
She has also been seen as Antigone in Oedipus at Colonnus (Manchester Royal Exchange) and in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC). Her film and television appearances include Sunday Bloody Sunday, Derek Jarman’s War Requiem and David Hare’s Straple In recent years she has given poetry recitals with Sir Derek Jacobi, Edward Fox, and John Julius Norwich. She appeared frequently with Sir John Mortimer in his poetry and prose entertainment, Mortimer’s Miscellany.
Shortly after her appearance at Stockton Heath she is taking “My Darling Clemmie” to France.
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