Written by Edward Rowe
Directed by Simon Harvey
Musical Direction by Richard Healey
“Normally ‘tis pitch black – just a bit o’ light from yer candle, like – but for you today, we’ll make sure you can see more.”
1914. Geevor, West Cornwall. Deep underground, three lads and the man they call ‘Father’ are working. Across the channel, a war has started without them…
The dynamic play is the untold story of Cornwall’s forgotten war heroes. Set mostly underground, the play follows miners from Cornwall to under the front line in France.
Hireth, which translates as ‘longing for home’ in Cornish, was produced for the centenary of WWI, in honour of Cornwall’s rich mining heritage and in tribute to the influence of Cornish miners in the war effort. The story is fiction based on fact, and is the result of research at Flanders Fields and Cornwall’s Regimental Museum.
