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Don't, for God's sake, come back alive 'cause we don't want to see
your ugly stumps and your ugly scars. We don't want to hear your
midnight screams and tales of hell. We all got along nicely without
you, thank you very much, and now you're back you remind us things
we'd much rather forget. More convenient, ain't it? To have a dead
hero. A dead hero don't have complaints. A dead hero don't even
have a voice. Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search
the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead
and the missing, for both enemy and friend. And amongst the rusty
wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something - looking
for someone. He has a promise to keep and debt to repay, and now
there is this strange request from the generals. A story of
comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept
following the carnage of World War One from the acclaimed writer of
Casualties, Ross Ericson. It received its world premiere at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 before embarking on a UK tour.
All the girls love a bastard. Tom Jones follows the adventures of a
young man of illegitimate birth through a tale of love, deception
and mistaken identity; a feast of human nature, served up in the
plain and simple manner of the West Country with all the high
French and Italian seasoning of sex and vice. Will he gain his
darling Sophia's hand? Will he escape the hangman's noose? Will he
ever learn to keep it in his trousers...? Henry Fielding's comic
picaresque novel 'A History Of Tom Jones, a foundling' caused a
stir upon first publication in 1749. Often referred to as the first
novel in the English language, this cunning new stage version tells
the escapades and exploits of the infamous protagonist through an
accessible and highly entertaining adaptation.
Bassanio has been murdered and, under suspicion, Gratiano is forced
to revisit his Fascist past. He was never the hero - just a minor
character, the plucky comic relief - but he never thought he would
play the villain... In a challenging sequel to William
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, this one-man monologue
written in a mixture of verse and prose explores the politics of
prejudice in the 20th century. Amongst the turmoil of post-war
Italy we read between the lines of Shakespeare's classic tale,
examine the true nature of the characters and ask just how
Mussolini managed to use democracy to turn a people against
themselves. This edition was published to coincide with the 2019
tour.
"Being on a tightrope is living, everything else is waiting." When
Gary Maddocks rejoins Mike Evans and his Counter IED Team in
Afghanistan he is pleased. He has been finding life back home with
Emma dull and is impatient to get back to the job he loves, but if
he had known what fate had in store for him would he have been so
eager? Of course he would: it's like an addiction, and if your luck
runs out there's nothing you can do about it, is there? But was it
bad luck, faulty equipment, or something worse? Mike has been
acting strange lately and Emma appears to be hiding something. When
you step on a pressure plate you think you hear the click, or you
think you feel it, but you don't know for sure. And you can't know
because what you remember . . . well some of it isn't real. Ross
Ericson's play Casualties explores how love, friendship and truth
are not so certain in the context of war.
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