Vernon Road
Scarborough
Yorkshire. YO11 2NN
Thursday 18th September 7.30pm
Friday 19th September 2.30pm (with post-show talk, free to ticket-holders)
Friday 19th September 7.30pm (with post-show talk, free to ticket-holders)
Saturday 20th September 2.30pm
Saturday 20th September 7.30pm
PLUS:
Saturday 20th September 10.30am - 12.00pm
£3 per person, £5 family ticket (up to 4 people), Veterans enter free.
Having been discharged in November, Wilfred Owen spent Christmas 1917 with the Manchester's reserve battalion at Scarborough. It was here he read Under Fire, the first-hand account of a French soldier's harrowing experiences in the Great War, and a strong influence on Owen's writing.
Thanks to Siegfried Sassoon, Owen also met several other authors in the late months of 1917, including Robert Graves - a fellow war poet - and H. G. Wells, the acclaimed science fiction author.
In March 1918 Owen was posted to Northern Command at Ripon, where he spent many of his off-duty hours writing in a rented attic; this period, which lasted until Wilfred was judged to be fit to serve again in June, ranks alongside the months in Craiglockhart as Owen's most poetically productive and important.
Scarborough Library Concert Hall
TICKET PRICES:
Full price adult: £8
Concessions: £6
(Under 16, Senior Citizen, Job Seeker, Student, Veterans)
GROUPS: Parties of 10 or more get 11th ticket free if booked together.
SCHOOL TICKET PRICE: £8 per child
OR groups of ten admits one teacher free + 11th ticket free.