Wilfred Owen Festival Double Bill

Strange Meetings - Spike Rose Productions.

Written & performed by Shaun Higgins.

Drawing on his history, his poetry and his letters, Strange Meetings documents the later life of Wilfred Owen, be-ginning with his admission to hospital with shell-shock, his auspicious meeting with Siegfried Sassoon and the resulting flourish of his poetry, his return to France, and the final and fatal battle in November 1918. Alive with the richness of his language and humour, this is the story of Oswestry poet and soldier Wilfred Owen, told in his own words.

The Unknown Soldier - Grist to the Mill Theatre Co.

Written & performed by Ross Erickson.

Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend. And amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs Jack is looking for something…