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In July 2008, the Heritage Arts Company took over Felixstowe’s impressive Landguard Fort, an aesthetic and historic singularity with over 350 years of stories to tell. Who is right when right is outranked? Can a uniform make a man into a master? In the unique atmosphere of the Fort, multiple narratives unfolded: a power struggle between officers, a fatal jealousy over a charismatic visiting Airman, a Chaplain wrestling with his conscience, and a commanding officer scrutinising his men as war on British soil seems ever more likely, woven into a vivid tale of Suffolk’s military connections and an unconventional night of site-specific theatre.

Moving inside and outside, through tight corridors and lonely barracks, the audience pieced together the intertwined stories as they marched towards their inexorable conclusion. With theatre, music, and film, ‘Where Soldiers Sleep’ re-imagined three key folkloric tales taken from the Fort’s long history, bringing its stones and stories together in an energised production worthy of the community to which they belong.