A soldier in 1917 writes about watching young men marching with guns. Another in 1918 shares that he is writing by the light of a candle made with bacon grease. That year another man talks about being on the front line for months as his friends died.

Stories like these are among those being revisited in “Letters Home,” a new production debuting tonight at Pulse Opera House in Warren. The show includes readings of real letters written by men from their stations and published in the Warren Tribune during World War I.

Artistic director Cynthia Smyth-Wartzok says she was looking into the history of an area soldier, Harry Surran, who died during the war in 1918. During her research, she began to run across letters from service members that caught her interest.

Smyth-Wartzok says she thought

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