A new play at the Stirling Festival Theatre is a wartime thriller that combines knitting and espionage. The play, titled Spycraft, tells the story of a secret agent who uses knitting to relay secrets and outsmart the Nazis.
According to playwright and producer Kirk Dunn, the idea for the play came from research on their previous play, The Knitting Pilgrim.
“We discovered that women had been performing these espionage duties for many years in warfare” and going unnoticed because they were women, Dunn said.
The play is a fictional thriller inspired by real people and events, and it highlights the use of coded knitting to convey secret messages during the Second World War.
Author's summary: Spycraft play combines knitting and wartime espionage.