VISION Arts are bringing ‘The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas’ to The Boulevard Theatre in Milford Haven this February, a breathtaking piece of theatre that won’t leave a dry eye in the audience.

Rehearsals are well underway at Vision Arts ready for the performances between Thursday, February 6 and Saturday, February 8 and the Haverfordwest-based creative hub can’t wait to see what this incredibly talented cast brings to the stage!

Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys. Angus Jackson’s deeply affecting adaptation was produced by The Children’s Touring Partnership and Chichester Festival Theatre on a UK tour in 2015.

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Raised in a loving family in early-1940s Berlin, the wide-eyed child Bruno sees his world turn upside down when his high-ranking Nazi-official father is promoted and accepts an important position as a commander in a strange-looking farm. Now, their new home is surrounded by a high and impenetrable wall; soldiers who are armed to the teeth patrol the perimeter; a dangerous electric fence keeps the intruders away, and, inexplicably, all farmers wear the same striped outfit.

However, on the other side of the wire, Shmuel - a shaven-headed Jewish boy of nearly the same age - has so many stories to recount, and he, too, as Bruno, is convinced that the boringly similar uniforms everybody is wearing, are, in fact, pyjamas. Wouldn’t it be marvellous if this exciting new friend lived on Bruno’s side of the fence?