One-woman Show on Lockerbie Tragedy at Barons Court Theatre
Amy Engelhardt lost five classmates to terrorist attack
Impact's writer and performer Amy Englehardt
October 16, 2024
A woman who lost five friends in the Lockerbie bombing is to present her one woman show about the aftermath at the Barons Court Theatre.
Amy Engelhardt perform in Impact as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival.
243 passengers, 16 crew members and 11 Lockerbie residents perished in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988.
Miriam Wolfe, Nicole Boulanger, Theodora Cohen, Tim Cardwell and Turhan Ergin had been Engelhardt’s classmates at Syracuse University. She first heard about the deaths from newspaper headlines, while standing on a subway platform in Boston, that jarring news has remained with her, a shadow intensified because, as she says, “I was sort of obsessed, read all the books and watched the documentaries. It was always there in the background, haunting the things I did”.
Amy decided to travel to Scotland to the site of the crash in 2109 after a remarkable chain of over 30 compelling “follow-signs” led her there.
She is now aiming to tell, through the lens of memory, music, and multimedia, an uplifting and moving story, born from disaster to celebrate the power of kindness amid great tragedy.
As she puts it, “Impact is an American love letter to the people of Lockerbie.”
Impact won the Jury Prize for Best Score at the U.S. National Women’s Theatre Festival, enjoyed a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe and was just produced Off-Broadway in New York City at The Tank.
The local newspaper announces the attack
Directed by Kira Simring and first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023, Impact runs at the Barons Court Theatre from 15-17 November at 5.30pm. For further information and tickets, which cost £15 or £10 for concessions, visit voilafestival.co.uk
Voila! Theatre Festival is an annual theatre rendezvous in London each November programming a ‘genre-busting’ mix of multidisciplinary, multilingual & multicultural performance featuring British & European emerging artists.
The Barons Court Theatre is below the Curtain's Up Pub at 28a Comeragh Road, W14 9HR.
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