Theatre and the Great War

Published on 11 October 2022
Submitted by Dr Helen Brooks

Drawing on findings from the nationwide Great War Theatre project Dr Helen Brooks shares new discoveries about the ways in which theatre-makers responded to the First World War.

In this presentation, Helen discusses the recruiting sketches of the first eighteen-months of the war, the mobilisation of the Home Front from late 1915, and trench-plays including, most famously, Bruce Bairnsfather's smash-hit The Better 'Ole (1917).

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