June 1944. Pressure by David Haig is an intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. The Allied forces led by General Eisenhower are poised to launch the biggest invasion ever known in Europe: D-Day with 350,000 lives at stake.

One last crucial question remains: will the weather be right on the day? American celebrity weatherman, Colonel Krick, predicts sunshine while a tenacious, hard-headed Scot, Dr James Stagg, Chief Meteorological Officer for the Allied Forces, forecasts a storm. If he is right, the invasion will be a disaster leading to massive loss of life. Eisenhower must decide which of these bitter antagonists to trust.

David Haig's superb play explores the responsibilities of leadership and captures the extraordinary pressure its characters were under at this crucial turning point in the Second World War, with wit, compassion and sheer dramatic verve. 

The Blacksod report - archive video

A crucial turning point in the build up to D Day was a weather report received from a young Irish woman based at Blacksod Point on the north west coast of Ireland (an incident referred to in the play). Watch the true story of the weather forecast that changed history on the link HERE.