What audience members said of last year’s event:



Falklands veteran

“As a veteran of the Falklands war I attended the cenotaph yesterday morning and then stumbled upon the event at the Trafalgar Studios, Eloquent Protest. I saw that Tony Benn would speak at this event and I remember him speaking years earlier when, along with millions of others, I had marched in protest against the war in Iraq. As a veteran I was given free entry to the theatre, but I have to tell you that I would have quite happily paid the price of a West End show for this event. I cannot thank you enough for restoring my faith in human kind, and for finding such an incredible way through art and words to focus on the need to continually renew and keep up the pressure in whatever way possible to speak of peace. In parts the show was quite funny and then I shed tears throughout some things, especially the reading of Siegfried Sassoon’s, Declaration that he made in 1917, it could have been written by a soldier now. That such a range of famous actors, singers, writers and musicians gave up their only day off to speak out against war in this way on Remembrance Sunday honoured my fallen friends in a much more personal and moving way than any parade ever has, because it was saying we will never give up”

12 November 2007 Falklands veteran, name withheld on request.



Albert Hall

“This is the event that I would like to see in the Albert Hall to remind people that whilst we respect the dead, we need to respect those who will die even more. Like the actor playing Siegfried Sassoon said when he was looking at Wilfred Owen’s poem, its not for those who are dead, its for those who will die isn’t it. Owen changed the title of his poem from Anthem to Dead Youth to, Anthem for Doomed Youth. My grandson died in Iraq, he was 19, please don’t stop this event, you have sown a wonderful seed of hope”.

Mrs Rennie, Blackburn, 20 November 2007



 

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Introduction:
Tony Benn

Singers
Rosemary Ashe
Sally Burgess
Charlie Dore
Johnnie Fiori
Fiona MacDonald
The Manchester
Lesbian & Gay Chorus
Nasrin Parvaz
Annette Reis-Dunne
Andrea Roberts
Peter Straker

Writers
Stella Duffy
Leslie Forbes
David Harsent
Ben Mellor
Shelley Silas
Lemn Sissay

Actors
Janie Dee
Sam Ellis
John Guerrasio
Loveday Smith
Will Strange
Two’s Company
Rupert Wickham
Dan Willis
Chris and Olly

Musicians
Julian Littman (MD)
Neal Thornton

Directors
London: Caroline Clegg
Nepal: Hazel Roy

Special Guests
Mende Nazer
Julie Nicholson


Trafalgar Studios



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Event sponsors & supporters:
The Stage Door Foundation
Dave Kirkwood Studio
J. S. Dutton

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