A war of words in Faulks' Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks is surprised his WW1 novel works so well on the stage, says Jo Kerrigan

WORLD War I, “the war to end all wars,” began 100 years ago this summer. There will be commemorations, remembrance services, linked programmes and television documentaries. In Ireland, we will experience a powerful evocation of that time in the play Birdsong, which comes to The Everyman, Cork, in early May, for its only Irish date of an extended tour.

Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of the Sebastian Faulks novel has attracted capacity audiences wherever it has played, often moving them to tears.