“I seem to have started out on an almighty Girls Own Adventure…with monumental consequences”

This play is the breath-takingly unlikely story of the eccentric aunt of the BBC’s former India correspondent Mark Tully who lived amongst the head-hunting Naga natives of North East India.

23-year-old Ursula was a Kensington debutante who went out East to do a little anthropology just before the war but ended up organising the Nagas to ward off the threat of a Japanese invasion of India. Thus, she became the only combatant female officer in the British Army. This was not the ‘done thing’ of course, so she’s been lost in army records ever since as a ‘typist’.

Ursula had a wonderful way with words and a naturally naughty wit, which is preserved in this funny, poignant and indignant adaptation.

The play was performed in Shrewsbury, Edinburgh and the Indian Jungle.