A Mother's Wish
When he was a little boy, his mother told him to do something with his grandfather's First World War diaries. Cameron eventually did what his mother asked him to do. He premiered My Grandfather’s Great War at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. The Daily Telegraph called it "A simple, honest tribute by one man to his grandfather" and said the piece "brings home the mud, terror and physical agony of the Western Front with a visceral urgency that sets your heart racing". Flanders is Stewart's first stop on an international tour.

"I abhor war"
The solo drama interweaves the diaries of Captain Alexander Stewart with the contemporary perspective of his grandson, the actor Cameron Stewart: "I’m rather torn because I have an awful lot of respect for soldiers and especially for my grandfather…but I abhor war."

Heirloom
The diaries of Alexander Stewart remained a family heirloom for 70 years. Cameron Stewart read some excerpts on the Today programme of BBC Radio 4 in 2008. That was the start of their expanding popularity. The diaries were published as A Very Unimportant Officer (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008). "The prose is sensitive, informative, anecdotal. Britain fell in love with it", says Lisa Bradshaw in Flanders Today. 

Cameron Stewart will perform from 22 till 24 January at The English Theatre of Bruges. All practical information can be found here.