Mark played and we all sang through the songs and read all the parts. It's always odd to hear the show out loud for the first time. It was very, very different then. The gun crew barely existed, and Act II was little more than a sketch of ideas.

 

Act II was still sketchy, but the gun crew began to be developed at this stage.

 

With an invited audience, and some very useful feedback. The women in Nelson's life were notably absent in this draft.

 

A brief airing to give us the chance to see the work and make more changes.

 

With the gun crew now more fully developed, the women were able to step forward more than they had. Now we started to consider the way in which our device of having two people play Nelson should be working. The development we did during this workshop process resulted in a Fifth Draft: the show actually presented at the final reading. We are currently developing that into a Sixth Draft.

 

Featuring performers from the Soho Theatre reading, we were delighted to see the audience spontaneously wave their Union Jacks during Band of Brothers.

 

We were featured on LBC's lunchtime slot during a show dedicated to the subject of Nelson. Some of the fantastic performers from our Soho Theatre reading came into the studio to perform Band of Brothers live, with Mark Warman at the piano. The lovely Bonnie Langford very kindly performed Not a Word From You. We spent the rest of the day talking about the show and playing the music on various local BBC radio stations.