Women & Theatre are working in partnership with the Birmingham Hippodrome and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) in the delivery of a participatory heritage project exploring the experiences of young men and boys from Birmingham during WWI.

The project will bring together a group of 14-25 year old males to research the experiences of young recruits during WWI and share them through live performances around an old drill hall site area in Thorp Street, a temporary exhibition at the RRF Museum and this digital archive. We will be updating this blog with material as the project progresses, and hope you will enjoy an insight into the process.

We are very fortunate to have received funding for this project from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Grimmit Trust, The Cole Charitable Trust, The Roughley Trust, The Rowlands Trust and Service Birmingham. We are also grateful to Chung Ying Garden and the Gallan Group for their permission to use the old Drill Hall site.

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Inspiration session continued

 
As well as the poem, Chocolate Soldiers All, we also looked with the boys at a couple of original 'letters home', written by soldiers going into battle, incase they should not return.
 
The boys were asked to create a character, a soldier recruited from Birmingham. They then wrote a 'final letter home' as that character to their loved ones, just as the soldiers did when they joined up. Have a look at the selection below that represent their response to two ‘letters home’ written by Birmingham lads and men.  These are likely to become part of the final production in some way.
 
 
 



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