Autumn / Winter Season 2006
1812 Theatre Company and Helmsley Arts Centre
presents
Not About Heroes
by Stephen MacDonald
Saturday 28th October • 7.30pm
Tickets £12 - £3.50 (Concessions £10.00 - £2.50)
With David Goodwin and Jonathan Lewis
This intimate two-hander charts the friendship of two soldier-poets,
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967). From
their first meeting in Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital, where Owen
has been sent with nervous shock and Sassoon has been consigned to silence
his anti-war views, Not About Heroes depicts the relationship between
two men caught in the horror of war. At first Owen is in awe and Sassoon
standoffish, but they become close - only for their friendship to be
cruelly cut short when a sniper a week before the Armistice kills Owen.
This is an astonishing story and a powerful play.
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