Brand new WWI play builds a bridge across time at Sedgeford in this commemorative year

You can see ‘Each Slow Dusk’ at

Sedgeford Village Hall on

Saturday 1st November 2014

at 7.30pm.

The show is suitable for ages 14years +

As part of the nation’s commemorative events to mark the outbreak of World War I, Sedgeford Village Hall will be welcoming nationally acclaimed theatre company Pentabus with their remarkable new play ‘Each Slow Dusk’ on Saturday 1st November at 7.30pm, with support from the arts and community development charity Creative Arts East.

The play has been written specifically to tour to rural settings and presents a compelling examination of the action, humanity, and the legacy of war. Hauntingly powerful performances and skilful writing plunge the audience into a fresh and ‘living’ glimpse of the reality of the time as it charts the experiences of a young farm worker serving on the western front, and links his story to a woman today, coming home to her village after a tour of the battlefields.

‘The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight – and a hundred years later, The Woman seeks to understand’. This is an evocative look at the links of the past to the present.

This event is organised in partnership with Creative Arts East with funding by Arts Council England, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Norfolk County Council and the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk.

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Remembering those who fell in World War I

A unique and sensitive site specific theatre event in Breckland

You can see ‘The Trench’ at

Old Buckenham Airfield on

Friday 21st at 8pm and Saturday 22nd November 2014

at 3pm and 8pm.

The show is suitable for adults and children 12 years +.

Norfolk based arts development charity Creative Arts East is delighted to announce the arrival of a unique theatre experience which will be coming to an historic airbase site in Breckland this November.

Creative Arts East are working with multi award-winning theatre company Les Enfants Terribles to deliver three performances of ‘The Trench’. The live performance and music event will tell the true story of a World War One trench miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One and his epic journey to find his way home.

The experience has been funded by a ‘Pride in Breckland’ grant from Breckland Council and will enable Creative Arts East to stage the performance within an aircraft hangar at Old Buckenham Airfield, which will be transformed into an auditorium. The event is one of the events taking place nationally in 2014 to commemmorate the outbreak of the First World War.

Creative Arts East’s Community Touring Manager, Karen Kidman, said:
“We are very excited to have the opportunity to showcase work by this excellent and pioneering theatre company, especially in such an evocative setting right here in the heart of our region. We are incredibly grateful to Old Buckenham Airfield and the dedicated team there who have so generously welcomed us, and are allowing and supporting the company in the use of their very special site”.

“Although the airfield was home to pilots and crew in the World War Two, the atmosphere and setting lends itself perfectly to be the site for this powerful and poignant piece set in World War One. It is a very human story, remembering the dreadful cost of what was a previously unparalleled conflict, and we know that audiences will find this a profoundly moving and unforgettable piece of theatre”.

This event is organised in partnership with Creative Arts East with funding by Breckland Council, Arts Council England and Norfolk County Council.

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For further information on this and other Creative Arts East events please go to:http://www.creativeartseast.co.uk/live/whatson.asp or contact Karen Kidman on 01953 713390 or [email protected]

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