Bentwater Roads at Bentwaters Airfield, Suffolk

Presented in an aircraft hangar, Bentwater Roads cleverly links ancient and modern events
Presented in an aircraft hangar, Bentwater Roads cleverly links ancient and modern events
MIKE KWASNIAK

Once upon a time there was a place by a bend in a stream a few miles from the Suffolk coast that was sacred to the Ancient British. In Christian times it became a church, but a church without a village because the only reason for building it there was to smother its pagan importance. Much later a US airfield spread over the site, and engines were tested in an acoustically sealed hangar locally known as the Hush House.

In this extraordinary building, shaped like a cube with a tunnel sticking out at the back, Eastern Angles is staging the latest play by Tony Ramsay. Doing so means a temporary break in the company practice of touring the region’s village halls and barns, but the