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Livermore will play host next week to a national touring production reliving the famous Christmas truce along the Western Front in World War I over a century ago, a "remarkable true story about our shared humanity", according to Livermore Valley Arts officials.
"All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914" will be onstage at the Bankhead Theater next Thursday (Dec. 22) with its unique blend of theater, music, history and holiday themes just days before Christmas 2022.
"'All Is Calm' relives an astounding moment in history along the Western Front in 1914, when Allied and German soldiers laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas together, thus beginning an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, and peace, sharing food and drink, playing soccer, singing carols, and burying each other's dead," LVA officials said. "In some places along the Western Front, the truce lasted a single night, and in others, it endured until New Year's Day."
"This remarkable story is told through the words of the great World War I poets, official war documents, diary entries and letters written by more than thirty WWI soldiers, which are woven together with iconic WWI songs and European Christmas carols, creating a profound retelling of this extraordinary moment in human history," they added.
The production was originally created as an ode to peace by Theater Latté Da, first as a live radio broadcast in 2007 with the vocal ensemble Cantus before expanding and evolving into the theater troupe's stage show that is now on tour across the country, according to LVA officials.
The Livermore performance is set for 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, with tickets still available. More details can be found at LivermoreArts.org.
