About The Saucer

Following a successful and uplifting run at Winkfield, CADS is taking The Saucer on tour. The Saucer is inspired by the true events of 1967 when a "flying saucer" was discovered in a field near the NASA satellite tracking station at Winkfield in Berkshire, putting the MoD on red alert. With another five flying saucers discovered along the 51st parallel, was this a psyop, a nuclear warhead, a chemical or biological attack, extra-terrestrials or something else? 

Coinciding with the state visit of Queen Frederika, a jolly but controversial character, together with the gathering of spaced out hippie UFOlogists seeking telepathic communication with life forms on other planets, amongst them an enigmatic free thinking cosmologist, this comedy is light, frothy entertainment recalling the nostalgia and heady optimism of the 1960s

Britain in the 1960s was a time of eager expectation of the impossible becoming possible: space exploration, a man on the moon within two years, contact with intelligent life on other planets, UFO sightings. Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s “white heat of technology” would restore Britain's position in the world economy; supersonic transatlantic airlines; the swinging sixties, the contraceptive pill, a more tolerant and liberal society. Overshadowed by the devaluation of the pound, de Gaul’s veto, the cold war, and the possibility of nuclear armageddon.

Some background information on the real events on which the drama is based, but beware that these contain plot spoilers to some degree: