Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front Exhibition
"Affecting and absorbing, Human Battles is a touching tribute to a local experience of war." A great evening for the opening of audio / visual exhibition Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front, produced by Digital Drama for The Rose Theatre. Ken Smith, Mayor of Kingston, spoke of Galsworthy's humanitarian campaigns and the South West London Military Wives Choir sang for guests including the exhibition's local contributors. Four stars for the exhibition from Alexandra Sims of The Upcoming: "The exhibition not only unearths the much-forgotten philanthropy of one of London’s greatest author’s but also, through local stories, connects us to an [...]
Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front
Digital Drama produces First World War Exhibition and Audio Tour for the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Author and Nobel Laureate John Galsworthy is best known for ‘The Forsyte Saga’, which dramatised social class and life in Edwardian England. However, his campaigning for injured servicemen from the First World War has gone almost entirely unnoticed, until now. Born on Kingston Hill in 1867 and although too old for active service in the First World War, Galsworthy worked for a time as a hospital orderly in France. This contributed to his determination to argue through essays and articles for rehabilitation of wounded servicemen. [...]
Global Feast
Digital Drama are delighted to have been commissioned for a second year by Global Arts Kingston to produce their programme for the Kinston Connections festival. Global Feast is an oral history project which focuses on bringing to life the heritage of Kingston's Tamil, Chinese, Korean, Gujarati, Punjabi and Afro-Caribbean communities through food. It will explore recipes, dishes and feasts brought to Kingston by members of these communities and their relatives and ancestors as they made Kingston their home and brought the flavours, tastes and smells of their homeland with them. It will provide opportunities for cultures from different communities to [...]