War Correspondents is the second song theatre performance created by composer Helen Chadwick and choreographer and co-founder of Frantic Assembly, Steven Hoggett, (Oliver award winner for Black Watch) following the success of Dalston Songs commissioned by the Royal Opera House.

Testimony, singing and choreography fuse into a multi-disciplined performance.

Whilst reporting the outbreak of war, a journalist is held at gunpoint, caught in the no-man’s land between two nations. Stories and life changing experiences of war journalists create a song cycle performance threaded with extracts of the interviews to bring to life the horror, pain, courage and the strength of friendship – the bearable and the worst of war.

Helen and Designer Miriam Nabarro have interviewed war correspondents covering Iraq, Chechnya, Georgia, Afghanistan, Liberia and Bosnia, including Giuliana Sgrena who was taken hostage in Fallujah, Iraq, and subsequently shot at by the US army.

“Pierces the heart”
Evening Standard on Dalston Songs

“Chadwick is an exquisite find.”
The Guardian