THE SOLDIER

by Rachel Wagstaff

"There's some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England..." 
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A captivating play by award-winning writer Rachel Wagstaff inspired by war poet Rupert Brooke and his contemporaries, with Tom Kay (Birdsong, Journey's End), Lukas Lee and Joseph Phelps. 

 UK / BELGIUM TOUR

 7 August 4.00pm - St George's Memorial Church, Ypres
10 October 7.45pm - Salisbury Playhouse (The Salberg)
11 October 7.45pm - Salisbury Playhouse (The Salberg)
12 October 7.45pm - Salisbury Playhouse (The Salberg) 
30 October 4.00pm - St George's Memorial Church, Ypres
14 November 8pm - Kings College, Cambridge
15 November 7.30pm -  Rugby School (Macready Theatre)
19 November 7.45pm - The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
23 November 7.30pm - Great War Huts, Brook Farm Camp, Hawstead, Suffolk

Press on MESH Theatre's production of Journey's End:

"Spine tingling - Lays bare the madness and savagery of the Great War." 
(The Times)

"Ever enthralling, good-humoured, finally heart-rending - See it and weep"
(The Daily Telegraph)

"A moving and precise reflection on a war that, even a century after the armistice, still haunts the imagination of Europe."
(The List) 

"Life and death in the trenches ... brilliantly realised"
(Western Front Association) 

"Not so much a 'must-see' show but a 'must-have' experience"
(Herts Advertiser)

"Such passion ... Not like ordinary theatre." 
(The Stage)  

"Gives a sense of the conflict in a way that nothing else quite does.."
(Curtain Call) 

"A direct line to the lived experience of war" 
​(P&O Ferries)