Wounded

1917: wounded soldiers injured in the Great War are nursed in a Birmingham hospital.

Now times have changed and ninety four years on the injured soldier being treated in the same military hospital is Kate Mulligan, a Combat Medical Technician. Wracked with guilt that she caused her own injuries and the life threatening injuries of another soldier who tried to save her, Kate begins to experience strange goings on. Perhaps it’s the shock or maybe, just maybe Kate really can see and hear Private Alfred Seddon.

The two soldiers, a century apart, remember and revisit their experiences, allowing them to explore their trauma and help each other recover. Emotional, heartfelt and intriguing, Wounded is a ghostly story, of two people coping with the aftermath of trauma.

As part of The REP’s offsite programme for 2012, Wounded will be performed at the Territorial Army Field Hospital in Kings Heath, providing audiences with an unbelievably authentic experience of war time care and history unlike any other theatrical experience.

An amazing site-specific piece of theatre for any audience member, the play has been written with young people in mind and is an ideal learning tool for key stage four students.

Wounded has been commissioned by the Wellcome Trust Arts Awards Engaging Science grants programme, which funds projects that explore biomedical science and its social contexts.