"Prayer Before Birth" by Louis McNeice
"The Soldier Addresses His Body" by Edgell Rickword
"The Send Off" by Wilfred Owen
"Bless 'Em All" by George Formby
"Goodbye To All That" by Robert Graves
"My Sweet old Etcetera" by E.E. Cummings
"The Hero" by Siegfried Sassoon
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
"A Square Dance" based on Roger McGough
"We're The Girls" by Keith Galloway
"Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer" by Harold Adamson
"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee
"The Unexploded Bomb" by C. Day Lewis
"Shalom Bomb" by Bernard Kops
"The Action In The Ghetto of Rohatyn, March 1942" by Alexander Kimel
"The Diary of Anne Frank - Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven." by Anne Frank
"Sergeant Brandon Just U.S.M.C." by Bryan Alec Floyd
"Man In The Bush" by Derek Bogaerde
Excerpts from "Winning Hearts and Minds-War Poems by Vietnam Veterans" compiled by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry & Basil T. Paquet
"The Nam #2.5" by Geno Cattouse"
"Your Attention Please" by Peter Porter
"Mother The Wardrobe Is Full Of Infantrymen" by Roger McGough
"First They Came" by Martin Niemöller
“Infantryman In The Wardrobe” was originally written by Keith Galloway, and performed in South Africa. The piece takes us on a journey from WW1 to present day, through the musings, songs, poetry and prose of the soldiers in the trenches and the women left behind. A beautifully poignant look at the futility of war, this original piece of theater highlights love, loss & human nature through equal parts humor and powerful sorrow.
No period in world history has been free from the devastating effects of war, and poets and have long dreamt of a millennium in which we will be at peace. Yet,
“I read one more report today.
Another flag half-mast and gun
salute, coffin draped, bearers done.
All shall yield
in time, to time, both old and young -
except upon the Battlefield
where he remains just twenty one.”
-Robert Kiely
