Wide is the Water : The Strange and, at times, Strained Relationship between the US and the UK.

Andrew Wines returns to the Christ’s Hospital Theatre for the fourth time with a multimedia, interactive, full-immersion extravaganza of history, politics, current affairs, literature, music and film.

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, explore how the ‘special’ relationship between the US and UK has reached a historic low.

Boston Harbor, the North and South Atlantic, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz provide the backdrop for confrontation and open warfare between the old country and its Yankee offspring that reveal shared and competing cultural identities.

George III, George Washington, Kipling, Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, FDR, Winston Churchill, the BBC, the Beatles, 007, the CIA, the IRA, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Prime Minister Starmer and President Trump signpost the pitfalls and potential inherent in the world’s strongest alliance.

(Minimum Age 14)