top of page
Mark Kitto (Osborne) and Tom Kay (Stanhope) at The British Schools Museum, Hitchin

TICKETS + INFO

+44779 967 7712 / mark@cemahistory.org
CEMA, Detling Hill, Maidstone, ME14 3JE, England

JOURNEY'S END

Scenes from R C Sherriff's

November 21 – 25 2023

The WWI trenches at Kent County Showground,  Maidstone 
 


An abridged version of the most compelling scenes from MESH’s acclaimed Armistice Ypres production featuring the original cast of 2017 &18. Set in the replica WW1 trenches at Kent County Showground, with War Horse and 1917 military historian Andy Robertshaw.

 

" See it - and weep"
The Daily Telegraph

"Spine tingling ... Lays bare the madness and savagery of the Great War." 
The Times

"A moving and precise reflection on a war that, even a century after the armistice, still haunts the imagination of Europe."
The List 

"Such passion ... Not like ordinary theatre." 
The Stage 

"A whiff of cordite - Captured the atmosphere, tensions, humour and tragedies of trench life brilliantly."
Despatches 

"Life and death in the trenches ... brilliantly realised"
Western Front Association

"Gives a sense of the conflict in a way that nothing else quite does.."

Curtain Call ​ 

Tom Kay (as Captain Stanhope) and Alex Phelps (Raleigh) at The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London
Tom Kay (Stanhope) and Simon Lloyd (Trotter) The Gunpowder Store (Het Kruitmagazijn) Ypres, Belgium, photo by Adrian Scarbrough
Joe Feeney as The Colonel at The Gunpowder Store (Het Kruitmagazijn) Ypres, Belgium, photo by Adrian Scarbrough
Joseph Phelps (Mason) The Gunpowder Store (Het Kruitmagazijn) Ypres, Belgium, photo by Adrian Scarbrough
Spine tingling... Lays bare the madness and savagery of the Great War. 
The Times
bottom of page