Negative Gravity the Life of Beatrice Shilling by Matthew Freudenberg
Much has been written in recent years about a heroine from the Second World War, whose timely invention and its major significance to the Royal Air Force, was not fully recognised until years after the event. Now, almost 30 years after the lady died, her story is to be portrayed on stage in Southampton, Hampshire during February.
Beatrice Shilling came to the rescue of the Spitfire pilots during the Battle of Britain. Her simple cure for the Merlin engine flooding problem, which proved to be fatal for too many pilots, was pure genius.
Unconventional, uncompromising, unapologetic, she would today be classed as a ‘difficult woman’. In the 1930s she broke new ground in women’s employment. She was also a speed queen.
For ticket details follow this link to ‘Tilly and the Spitfires.’
Nuffield Southampton Theatres, City Space Studio venue, on 27 and 28 February.
Read more about Beatrice Shilling Naylor here.
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