'The Forester's House' - a new play about the last hours of Wilfred Owen, November 2014
Tue, Nov 4th 2014 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am
"The Foresters House" by local playwright Neil Rhodes, is set in Ors in France just days before the armistice was announced in 1918. The camaraderie between Wilfred and his men, the longing for home and the long suffering acceptance of war set the scene.
"The Forester's House"
by Neil Rhodes
a new play about the last hours of Wilfred Owen
Tuesday November 4th 7pm at the Cricket Club, Oswestry
Friday & Saturday November 7th & 8th 7.45pm at the Marches School, Oswestry
Thursday, Friday & Saturday November 13th, 14th, 15th, 7.45pm at Llanymynech Village Hall
November 4 Gala night all tickets £10
Other performances tickets £7 (£6 concessions)
Youth 12-16 £3.50 (not really suitable for primary school children due to adult content)
Tickets available from:
The Village Post Office
Llanymynech Village Hall
(01691 839147)
The Herbarium
and Mile End Tourist Information Centre
or phone 01691 830558
Set on the last night of Wilfred Owen's life, before his death the next morning, just a week before the armistice. In his letters to his mother he writes of, and describes being, in the cellar of a forester's house, where he is resting up with his men prior to the offensive. The play imagines the comradeship and banter between the men prior to the horrors which face them the next morning.
It features some of Owen's poetry and music performed by staff and pupils from Oswestry School and the Marches School.
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