Birdsong – Original Theatre Company Online
Written by Sebastian Faulks and adapted by Rachel Wagstaff, Birdsong was first staged by Original Theatre and toured between 2013 and 2018. It was hugely successful with 4- and 5-star reviews and was seen by more than 250,000 people in 75 theatres across the UK and Ireland.
As we pass the 104th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, this play is a timely reminder of the severe loss of life between 1st July and 18th November 1916. On the first day of battle a man was killed every 4.4 seconds, the bloodiest single day in the history of the British Army. The battle was described by war poet Siegfried Sassoon as a “sunlit picture of hell”.
The play begins in France 1916. The Sappers (a team of ex-miners) were conscripted as tunnellers, setting mines a...
