POWs dressed up for play

POWs dressed up on stage - four rats (?) and an elephant and a seated drunk

Thirty musical numbers were used in the show, 'The Bumbles of Bumbleton' during which this photograph was taken. The show was a musical farce and was on for three nights: 25, 26 and 27 April 1944. The backstage workers performed miracles with the most unlikely materials to make props and costumes for the shows.

Courtesy of Jack Smallridge