Women Of World War One

Women of World War One is a unique production: a portrait of women's lives, their stories told in their own words, with rarely-heard music for piano and strings by female composers of the era, performed by Jacquelyn Bevan (piano), Jamie Hughes (violin) and Linda Stocks (cello).

The readings - from letters, diaries, autobiographies and poems – are narrated by Petra Schofield and Barbara Ingledew, and, matched by the music, the whole performance runs ‘in sync’ with a specially commissioned film of exquisite slow moving images.

'Whilst researching the script and music we discovered many local connections. Adela Maddison was a regular performer at the Glastonbury Festivals of the early 1900s, composing songs to Indian poems and other exotic lyrics,' says Jacquelyn Bevan. 'Frome Museum sent us a fascinating story of the egg collecting depot’; Mells, of course, has the connection with Margot Asquith; and Elsie Hillier from Haydon made it into the local paper when she wore her brother’s trousers to make it easier to work on the farm. A scandal!'