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For more details on travelling to the venue and accessibility please visit our Find Us Page. Previous Next. For more read our Privacy Policy Click to accept Click for options. Cookie and Privacy Settings. In Nicholas Wright successfully adapted it for the stage with a cast of eight males plus one female and it achieved a highly successful national tour.
It takes place in Craiglockhart Hospital in , where Siegfried Sassoon meets and becomes friends with Wilfred Owen. The Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches…. The play itself is well constructed, easily making one forget its origins, and, at times, such as the epilogue in which Rivers and Sassoon meet after the war, is very poignant.
The direction Oliver McFadden makes the most of this, letting the play speak for itself without interference and ensuring that its many scenes flow smoothly into each other, using a simple set Layla Bradbeer and basic furniture which the actors themselves quickly position. As Dr Rivers, Will Forester is superb: he has that rare quality of stillness and is totally believable.
We empathise with the decisions he has to make and feel his pain as he tries to help those who are put under his care. He seems to have endless compassion and patience and the production is at its strongest whenever he is on stage.
The play is well worth catching for his performance alone. His most involving scenes are with Rivers, the two officers building up a true rapport and eventually friendship. The first scene with Sassoon, where he first shows him an early poem, is amusing and at the same time, moving, a tribute to the writing, acting and direction. In short: an excellent play, very involving, with three first-rate performances, even if whoever was in charge of props should have known that the tape recorder was not invented until c!
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