Frontlines and Lifelines – An Army Doctor in Crisis and War

IN PERSON



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Artist:
Centre for Military Research, Education and Public Engagement
Professional company
UNITED KINGDOM - SCOTLAND
Performers: 20

Festival:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Genre:
Spoken Word
Poetry, Live Music

Age Limit:
12+

Description:
The distilled 40-year career of an internationally renowned British Army doctor, presented as a collection of original poems. Major General Tim Hodgetts has led the development of modern combat casualty care through crises and war, deploying on operations as an emergency and helicopter doctor or field hospital medical director. Listen to insightful, questioning, haunting, inspiring and darkly humorous poems, performed by the author and invited readers, with selected material set to music. Hosted at Craiglockhart where Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen met, you cannot unhear this uniquely moving experience.

Warnings:
Contains distressing or potentially triggering themes

Venue Code:
594
Venue Room:
Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre (capacity 200)
Venue:
Forces @ The Fringe at The War Poets Collection
Venue Address:
Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus
Venue Postcode:
EH14 1DJ


Performances

DayDateStartEndDurationPriceTitleStatus
Mon26/0818:0019:301:300.00Free Ticketed