THE HOMING STONE: ARTHUR RANSOME’S JOURNEY HOME
Date: Friday, 20th February 2026
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval)
Age Advisory: None
Ticket Prices:
Adult: £12.00
Status: Sold Out
Arthur Ransome is well known as the author of the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ books. What is less well known is that as a young man he went to Russia to collect folk-tales and was swept into the maelstrom of the Russian Revolution. During the six years he lived in Moscow he became the only British journalist trusted by the Bolsheviks.
About This Show
He played chess with Lenin and fell in love with Trotsky’s secretary Evgenia Shelepina. In England he was regarded with profound suspicion as a possible Soviet agent. In 1919 when Moscow was surrounded by counter-revolutionaries, he and Evgenia escaped. They travelled through Estonia with a horse and cart knowing they would be shot if recognised. In the Homing Stone master storyteller Hugh Lupton (who is also Ransome’s great-nephew) tells the epic tale of that perilous and extraordinary journey.
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Backyard Theatre
Behind the Radio Museum
5 Anchor Street
Watchet
Somerset
TA23 0AZ
