All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914

All Characters
DICK BARRON – 2nd London Mounted Brigade
PRIVATE FRANK BASS – 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment
ANDREW BOWIE – Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
ROBERT BURNS – 7th Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
CAPTAIN A D CHATER – 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
WINSTON CHURCHILL – First Lord of the Admiralty
PRIVATE W. T. COLYER – Artists’ Rifles
LANCE CORPORAL COULSON – London Rifle Brigade
CYRIL DRUMMOND – Royal Field Artillery
CORPORAL JOHN FERGUSEN – Seaforth Highlanders
GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH – British Expeditionary Force
COUNT GLEICHEN – Brigadier General, 15th Brigade
CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD HULSE – Scots Guards
HUGO KLEMM – 133rd Saxon Regiment
MAURICE LAURENTIN – Commandant 6e Compagnie
FRANCIS EDWARD LEDWIDGE – Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
GEOFFREY LILLYWHITE – Royal Engineers
GEORGE LITTLEFAIR – Durham Light Infantry
PRIVATE TOM MACDONALD – 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
PATRICK MACGILL – London Irish Regiment
LT. GENERAL C.F.N. MACREADY – British Army
PRIVATE PETER MCGREGOR – 14th Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders
ALBERT MOREN – 2nd Queen’s Regiment
SGT. G. H. MORGAN – Royal Warwickshire Regiment
OBERSTLEUTNANT JOHANNES NIEMANN – 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment
WILFRED OWEN – Manchester Regiment
SECOND LIEUTENANT ARTHUR PELHAM-BURN – 6 Gordon Highlanders
PRIVATE W.R.M. PERCY – London Rifle Brigade
POPE BENEDICT XV
PRIVATE EDWARD ROE – East Lancashire Regiments
JACK ROGERS – Sherwood Foresters
SIEGFRIED SASSOON – Royal Welch Fusiliers
CAPTAIN JOSEPH SEWARD – 17th Bavarian Regiment
PRIVATE FRANK SUMPTER – London Rifle Brigade
PRIVATE JACK SWEENEY – 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
G. T. FORRESTIER-WALKER – Brigadier General
H.G.R. WILLIAMS – London Rifle Brigade
HENRY WILLIAMSON – London Rifle Brigade
FRANK AND MAURICE WRAY – London Rifle Brigade

While in the original production there were three actors and nine singers with doubling, this work could be performed by any number of singers and actors. There are 39 characters in the script; the author strongly recommends engaging a dialect coach, as there are numerous countries and classes represented. The various dialects are a vital part of the musicality and the storytelling.

The work could be performed by any number of singers and actors. In the original production there were three actors and nine singers. There are 39 characters in the script; the author strongly recommends engaging a dialect coach, as there are numerous countries and classes represented. The various dialects are a vital part of the musicality and the storytelling.