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POILU AND TOMMY

Éternel souvenir! Guerre! Guerre! Revanche!
Ageless memory! War! War! Revenge!
Victor Hugo

1900. Two boys, one French and a would-be poète maudit, the other English and dreaming of glory, find themselves sharing an Alsatian governess with a tragic secret. Part allegory on the cultural background to WWI, part ghost story in the vein of The Turn of the Screw, Poilu and Tommy follows the boys from the seemingly bucolic country house of their childhood to a cellar in no-man’s land, where they unexpectedly meet as young men caught up in the battle of the Somme.

Poilu and Tommy is a new play by Mick Wood and Anglo-French company Théâtre Volière, premiering at the Ledbury Poetry Festival prior to a run at The Courtyard Theatre in London. The show includes the poetry of figures as diverse as Hugo, Rimbaud, Kipling, Houseman, Brooke, Péguy, Masefield and Giraud, and comes with comprehensive new translations of all the featured French poetry.

The Courtyard Theatre, London
19th Feb - 8th March 2014
box office 020 7729 2202
tickets@thecourtyard.org.uk