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Four Families of the Fallen was a special 2018 pop-up community theatre performance project created and performed by Quick Fix Theatre, with support from the RC Sherriff Trust, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.
The performance was a collection of four original short plays about untold stories from the Home Front in 1918. The project was inspired by the commemorative wooden Roll of Honour in St James’ Church Weybridge, Surrey, UK and a July 1918 news article in the Surrey Advertiser about a remembrance service at St James’ Church.
The play tells the story of four families from Weybridge whose lives were all changed forever when a loved one died during the First World War. Each dramatisation gives audiences a unique glimpse into the realities for each of the four families as they come to term with their loss and the impact of the war.
Quick Fix Chair, Ben Wilson used a range of sources to conduct the research including: The British Newspaper Archive, Imperial War Museums, Ancestry.com, National Archives, and Surrey in the Great War, a Surrey Heritage project.
In 2020, to accompany the four plays, Quick Fix created a 3D immersive experience which includes 3D models, soundscapes, 360/VR images and 360 photographs of the cast, to enable viewers to delve into the historical research in more detail.
Read more to discover the stories of the four individuals whose lives were cut short by the First World War and explore the immersive experience for yourself.
Scroll to preview the immersive experience which you can enter using the link below.
Dive deeper into the backgrounds of key characters and hear stories about real-life Weybridge residents from the Great War, inspired by actual newspaper reports.
Reverend Buller was the vicar of St James' Church Weybridge and a man with a fascinating past and some strong opinions. Get up close to a 3D model of Rev. Buller and hear more about his story.
Explore a 3D replica of HMS Hawke and step into story bubbles to discover more about the fate of the ship