It's A Long Long Way To Tipperary From Flanders Fields

Created in the centenary year of the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary from Flanders Fields makes a new contribution to the reawakening of interest in the First World War and its consequences for so many people.

Entertaining, provocative and full of surprises, the show has a special focus on the way women were changed by and involved in the war. Their lives are commemorated in words and songs, familiar and unfamiliar. American Broadway rubs shoulders with English stiff upper lip; Victorian sentimentality meets ragtime. Poems and letters give us an insight into the experience of war for soldiers, nurses, entertainers, factory workers and mothers. Taking the audience on a journey from the innocence of 1914 to the terrifying implications of Haig’s ‘backs to the wall’ order of 1918, we see war at its most brutal, ironic and poignant.