The Falklands Conflict happened 30 years ago. It was dubbed "Britain's last colonial war". Maggie Thatcher, mired in political turmoil at home, sent 5000 troops 8000 miles down to the bottom of the world to reclaim a tiny pair of islands at the southern tip of South America colonised by less than 1000 British Subjects which had been 'illegally' invaded by Argentina.

The conflict lasted only two months, but encapsulated everything that war is; the failed politics, the military build up, the epic voyage, the beach landings, sinking of ships, artillery strewn battlefields, grenades and bayonets, the heroism, the horror and the tragedy. Britain's victory saved Thatcher's premiership and secured Conservative supremacy for 15 more years, but left hundreds of soldiers with the deep scars of war, the loss of comrades, and a lifetime of Post Traumatic Stress. But, the Falklands victory also epitomized the fortitude of the Great British Tommy, and remains a potent source of national pride.

Ken Lukowiak was there. A lowly infantryman in 2 Para. At the beach landings, the famous battle at Goose Green and the death of Colonel H Jones, the sinking of the Galahad in Fitzroy and at the liberation of Port Stanley. He saw it all. A decade later he wrote an acclaimed article for the Guardian Magazine from which he was commissioned to write a book - A Soldier's Song. It became a best seller and Ken became a renowned War Correspondent.

In 1998, Guy Masterson adapted the book for the stage and toured the show globally to widespread acclaim. Now, 12 years on, for the 30th anniversary, Lukowiak himself will now take on the role of his life and tell his own story' and say it like it was.

A Soldier's Song brings the battlefield to the stage in an extraordinary work of theatre; to kill or be killed, to cower from the shells. This is the theatre of War in all its facets, invoking the horror, terror, shame, black humour, futility and tedium of a soldier's life on the front line and the lingering effects of Post Traumatic Stress. Deeply disturbing and frightening at times utilising a pounding, totally authentic multi-directional soundscape, it is also extremely funny, employing the dark "squaddie" humour to offset the darkness. The brutal demotic language and reality of the battlefield is brought to vividly to life.