Where Soldiers Sleep

Where Soldiers Sleep - The Landguard Fort, Felixstowe, July 2008
http://www.heritagearts.co.uk

In July 2008, the Heritage Arts Company took over Felixstowes impressive Landguard Fort, an aesthetic and historic singularity with over 350 years of stories to tell. Who is right when right is outranked? Can a uniform make a man into a master? In the unique atmosphere of the Fort, multiple narratives unfolded: a power struggle between officers, a fatal jealousy over a charismatic visiting Airman, a Chaplain wrestling with his conscience, and a commanding officer holding his men together as war on the east coast of Great Britain seems ever more likely, woven together to create a frighteningly vivid tale of Suffolks connection with the military and an unconventional night of site-specific theatre.

Moving inside and outside, through tight corridors and lonely barracks, the audience pieced together the chronology of the intertwined stories as they marched towards their inexorable conclusion. With theatre, music, film and movement, Where Soldiers Sleep re-imagined three key folkloric tales taken from the Forts long history, bringing its stones and stories together in an energised production worthy of the community to which they belong.

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Entertainment

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• heritage
• arts
• company
• landguard
• felixstowe
• theatre
• promenade
• site-specific
• guardian
• suffolk
• tim wilson
• mat burt
• dave wright
• jonathan broke
• where soldiers sleep