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Not About Heroes
When: Thursday 10th November 2011 - 7:30pm
Where: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Cardiff, CF24 3JW
Stephen MacDonald’s moving and intriguing play tells the story of the friendship formed between World War I poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen during their time together at Craiglockhart Hospital for nervous diseases.
When Owen died in 1918, aged twenty five, just before the end of the Great War, only five of his poems had been published, yet he was to become one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century. Most of his war poems are based on his experiences in front line service in what was said to be the worst winter France had known for forty years. Few would challenge the claim that he was one of the greatest writers of war poetry, encapsulating as he did the physical and mental anguish of those terrible personal experiences. It was when he was sent to the Craiglockhart Hospital for nervous diseases that he met the already published poet, Siegfried Sassoon and his influence and friendship was to have an enduring impact on Owen and his work. The play chronicles this relationship and includes extracts from their letters and poems which as Owen himself says are about “war and the pity of war”.
CAST:
WILFRED OWEN … Tom McLeod
SIEGFRIED SASSOON … Jack Llewellyn
A Heroic Masterpiece
“I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. Let us sleep, now..." ~ Wilfred Owen
Up and coming Frapetus Productions theatre company return with an intriguing yet moving play, Not About the Heroes set in World War I. The play focuses on the friendship of two poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who become friends in the horrific circumstances in the battle field of the Great War and also focuses on the pain and suffering of war.
Frapetus Productions have previously staged Connection Failed at the Gate in 2010 are back with this epic tale of two soldiers who find comfort in each other. The play stars Tom McLeod as Wilfred Owen and Jack Llewellyn as Siegfried Sassoon.
Not About Heroes is a gripping tale of two men stuck on the front line during the Great war. It tackles the very controversial issue of war. Not About Heroes, although set during World War I the issues that surrounded war then still surround war now.
On a personal note I would most certainly advise people to go see this play in order to become educated on how the men and women of our country suffer and fight in order to get us our freedom that of which we take for granted. It will give you a new profound respect for the men and women in our forces and the effects of war.
Not About Heroes by Stephen McDonald and directed by Bethan Thomas will be performed at The Gate Arts Centre on 10th November at 7:30pm. Ticket prices stand at £10 but under 16s, unemployed, over 60s and students can get their tickets at £8.
To purchase tickets you can call The Gate Box Office on 02920483344 or book online at www.thegate.org.uk