Fauré’s beloved Requiem with letters and memoirs from the First World War.

Commissioned as an official Armistice Day Centenary performance.

By turns shocking, colourful, and heartbreaking, these narratives form the marginalia of a war we know well, but from voices we do not. Two readers perform in dialogue with each other, balancing both women’s and men’s vivid experiences of battle taken entirely from letters found at the Imperial War Museum, London.

This adaptation stands for all wars, and is a cathedral programme for Memorial Day, Veterans Day, All Souls Day, or to otherwise honour those who have perished in combat. Letters are from men and women, veterans and those at home, and from both sides of the war.

Edited and directed by Bill Barclay for a city-wide celebration of 100 years since the end of The Great War.

Performed by City of London Sinfonia and premiered in Southwark Cathedral, London.