Churchill at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center

It is April 4, 1955. Winston Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, is in his secret bunker beneath Whitehall in London. At age 80 he is faced with the dilemma of retiring from office and stepping down from a career that has spanned 55 years in Parliament. He led England through World War II, inspiring and rallying the British Empire to withstand the tyranny of Hitler and Mussolini. He garnered the Nobel Prize in Literature for his history of The Iron Duke, Marlboro, his forebear. He was a pivotal figure in the British Empires history. He was a statesman, an orator of tremendous skill, a prolific writer with over 56 volumes of history as well as innumerable newspaper articles, and an impetuous strategist. But throughout his life he maintained a marvelous wit.