First World War’s Divergent Voices


Event Details

This event finished on 02 November 2014


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Marking the centenary of the First World War we make space for the voices of those who questioned and opposed the war, speaking to us across the decades. A specially commissioned live performance based on letters, journals, memoirs and poems of soldiers, nurses, home front workers, women who opposed the war and conscientious objectors. Includes excerpts from newspapers written by soldiers at the front and conscientious objectors in prison.

Tickets £7.50. Book Tickets online here.

Featuring Gerda Stevenson, Aonghas Macneacail, Crawford Logan, and Jamie Reid Baxter, with music by Michel Byrne. If you missed the highly successful performance of Divergent Voices that took place at the Storytelling Centre in July don’t miss this. Script by Brian Larkin, Coordinator of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre.

This event is part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. It complements the exhibition ‘Behind the Lines: Personal stories of the First World War’ at the National Library of Scotland.

Tickets £7.50. Book Tickets online here or in person from the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Royal Mile, Edinburgh,
by phone on +44 (0)131 556 9579.

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