Round Lights

France, December 1944. Journalist Ben Gardiner has come to the front lines of Europe to ring in the New Year with the pilots of 415th Squadron — young Americans who live their lives by night, and whose stories of unearthly lights and close encounters soon turn Ben’s visit into an otherworldly vigil…

Based on true events, Round Lights is an account of very strange happenings at a very strange time, and of the ordinary (and extraordinary) people whose job it became to document phenomena that remain unexplained to this day.

Who is best placed to interpret the impossible? Can awe survive war? And most importantly — is anybody really out there?

“Things can go two thousand miles per hour, fly up to altitudes where we can’t tell ‘em from stars in the sky, never come with flak, never open fire, and they can follow a Beaufighter through manoeuvres’d shake off paint. Lord, what I’d give for proof it ain’t Germans.”

Sosij Productions is an award-nominated theatre company founded on a shared desire to make the kind of show you’d want to watch twice.

While we agree that it’s theatre’s responsibility to present informed discussion about the world we live in, we reckon it never hurts to imagine a slightly more exciting, slightly kinder, and slightly wittier world too. If you like quiet surprises, complex ideas, idiosyncratic characters and laughing, we hope you’ll like our plays.