'One of the best plays ever written about the First World War'
GUARDIAN 'To say that it leaves you emotionally shattered feels
like an insult to those bygone souls and the horrors the faced, but
quietly shattering it is, all the same' DAILY TELEGRAPH A battalion
of 1,000 young men raised in 1914 from volunteers in the Accrington
area of East Lancashire go to war. They are destined to see their
first real action on 1st July 1916 on the first day of the Battle
of the Somme, still regarded as the greatest British military
disaster with huge loss of life. Not many return to Accrington
alive or intact. Whelan's play traces these men's history through
individual stories, but his special interest lies in the lives of
the women left behind, battling with their own problems, deprived
of their relationships with husbands and lovers, undertaking
traditionally male roles, and kept in doubt by the misinformation
of wartime propaganda. Their moving stories interweave in scenes
that are often comic, but which reach a devastating climax as the
news of the disastrous battle finally reaches them. Commentary and
notes by John Davey.
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