This play was about Betty Stevenson, a young woman working with the YMCA in France alongside the troops in World War I. Written and directed by Anna Rowley, the one-woman play was performed by Lauren Storey. In the wood-panelled theatre, under the gaze of the carved statues of the saints, her words rang out clearly as she told of her sense of vocation.
It makes a great difference to your life, if you have a vocation or not. If you have, it makes you feel as though you had some real object or aim in your life and work. I think any kind of charitable work must be an especial calling from God. (Stevenson, 1920)
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