Great War Drama Project

The new Great War Drama Project is to create a heritage learning resource as a new play for South Gloucestershire schools about the First World War and how members of this community were affected at home and on the battlefield of the Somme. The Brass Works Theatre will work in partnership with South Gloucestershire Council (including their 4 local heritage centres), several South Gloucestershire schools and UWE to complete this project.

This project will explore the real lives of people from South Gloucestershire in 1916 in order to create characters for the piece from real history. This will build on the foundations of the Twitter project, which was run by South Gloucestershire Council as part of their FWW project. It created an innovative window on the heritage of people in South Gloucestershire during the Battle of the Somme. It enabled the public to view snippets of the lives of 10 characters, both at home and in France, through the medium of Twitter. Followers were able to get a flavour of these stories through tweets.

To read more about the characters visit   South Glos About The Somme

So far Adrian Harris from Brass Works Theatre, with assistance from Cherry Hubbard, Engagement Officer, WW1 Engagement with Gloucestershire, has been into Bradley Stoke School, Mangotsfield School and Kings Oak and Sir Bernard Lovell with 6 workshops. This means the Great War Drama Project will have engaged with 150 year 9 school children.

Contact: Adrian Harris: adrian.papercut@googlemail.com