GALLIPOLI REMEMBERED: Izabelle Brown will be among Greytown Little Theatre members to read war poetry as part of a performance for the Greytown Arts Festival. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA
GALLIPOLI REMEMBERED: Izabelle Brown will be among Greytown Little Theatre members to read war poetry as part of a performance for the Greytown Arts Festival. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA
Greytown Little Theatre actors and the Featherston Gentlemen's Choir will evoke the hardship and sorrow of war through a series of poems and songs performed to mark the Gallipoli centenary this year.
The readings will begin at 11am on Saturday and Sunday as part of the Greytown Arts Festival, whichstarts tomorrow.
Five actors - Margaret Jesson, Narena Olliver, Rita-Anne Penhale Cashmore, Colton Stuart and Izabelle Brown - will read poems written by soldiers and women involved in the war effort.
The readings will be interspersed with offerings from the choir, who will perform songs that were sung in the trenches. Actors will be dressed as nurses, soldiers and in period costume.
Former Kuranui College head girl Izabelle Brown, 18, who will take on the role of a woman awaiting the return of a loved one, will read two poems by Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Futility, as well as After the War and Lamplight by May Wedderburn Cannan.
Miss Brown hopes audiences will gain an insight into the effects of the war.
"I hope they will have a greater understanding of how the war affected different groups of people.
"It's important that we remember everything that they went through as a way to prevent it from happening in the future, and why we are here today, and why we have the freedoms we have got."
