This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stage play in two acts.
Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916
find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David
Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to
authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate
with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour
- the only defence against a bleak and mindless war. This new
edition of This Wretched Splendour includes a one-act play, Wild
With All Regrets, an evocative biographical drama woven from the
words and experiences of Wilfred Owen on the Western Front. "The
standard first world war play is still RC Sherriff's Journey's End.
But Rebecca Wilby, a 29-year-old from Cheltenham, knocks it into a
cocked hat with This Wretched Splendour. Where Sherriff's play is
steeped in the public-school ethos, this one conveys the eccentric
humanity and the tragedy of life at the front line." Michael
Billington, The Guardian
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