The collections below are materials from the Letters to the Living, Songs to the Dead production in July 2014.
View the production’s page here.
Programme
View The programme listed all those involved in the production and some background information on the project.
Photos
View Photographs taken at the July 2014 performance in the Forest Garden, Wimborne
View Photographs taken in rehearsal
Scripts and Scenarios
View the script for the Allenbourn Middle School scene The Conkerers.
View an outline scenario for the piece to be performed outdoors.
View an alternative scenario in the old school building near the Forest Garden.
© copyright of Wimborne Community Theatre
Two Poems from World War One and Words of a Traditional Folk Song used in the Production
View The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
View lyrics of To Be a Farmer’s Boy
Workshop Notes – Letter Trail
View World War One letter trail – early ideas developed with Periplum on linking scenes in different sites and involving the audience
After School Drama Project
View Photographs of the children of St Michael’s Middle School and Beaucroft School working together in After School clubs.
View WCT Report written for Dorset Community Foundation on the work carried out with schools for the production.
Evaluation
View a summary of the audience’s responses to the performance.
Soundtracks
Listen to recordings of voices describing local and national events in the First World War.
Read by Tony & Gill Horitz
Play all or individual tracks:
He Whom This Scroll Commemorates
Albert Maidment – Hospital Scene
Dear Nurse Coggin 1 – Hospital Scene
RCL Parent Speaking – Hospital Scene
Dear Nurse Coggin 2 – Hospital Scene
Rev Fletcher: Wimborne Sermon
Boy in the Wheelchair – Diary Extract
A Nurse Describes the Wounded – Diary Extract
My Darling Died – Diary Extract
George RJ: A Message from the King
Stanley Sharp – Diary Extract
Names of the Dead – Wimborne Roll Call