Blackeyed Theatre, in association with South Hill Park presents
Not
About Heroes
By Stephen MacDonald
24 October Middlesbrough
Theatre
25 October The
Maltings Theatre, Berwick-upon-Tweed
26 October Alnwick
Playhouse
3 November Gala,
Durham
4 November Pocklington
Arts Centre
4 December Queen’s
Hall Arts Centre, Hexham
5 December Brewery
Arts Centre, Kendal
In Autumn 2014 Blackeyed Theatre Company tours
Stephen MacDonald’s Not About Heroes to over forty theatres across the UK. Marking the centenary of the beginning of The First
World War, this major revival of MacDonald’s play, about the poets Siegfried
Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, performs from 10 September until 6 December 2014.
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Stephen MacDonald's beautifully written play
chronicles the unique and deepening friendship that developed between Siegfried
Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, from their first meeting in 1917 at the Craiglockhart
War hospital where both were being treated for 'war neurosis', to their final
meeting in August 1918, shortly before Owen's return to active duty.
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Seen through the eyes of the older Sassoon - who is
remembering events from fourteen years previously - the play interweaves
extracts from their real diaries, letters and poems and suggests that their
intensefriendship was key to unlocking Owen's genius as a poet and liberating
him as a man. The playwright Stephen MacDonald wanted to understand how this
relationship, "could leave such an indelible mark on the literature of
their war and so on our understanding of war itself', and hoped that the play
"might refresh the memory of who these men were and what it was they had
to tell us".
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One hundred years on from the beginning of the
First World War, Not About Heroes is both exhilarating and uncompromising in its
exploration of love, war and a friendship that changed the face of British poetry.
Eliot Giuralarocca directs James Howard, whose credits include the Donmar
Warehouse and Royal Shakespeare Company, and Ben Ashton, who has recently
worked with the Watermill in Newbury as well as the RSC, in a production that features music composed by
Tom Neill, set design by Victoria
Spearing, costume design by Jenny Little and
lighting design by Charlotte McClelland.
Director, Eliot Giuralarocca, said “The
friendship between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon was forged 100 years ago,
in the unique circumstances of the First World War and left us poetry that
still burns brightly today. I hope my production of Not About Heroes will give
the audience a visceral and sensual theatrical experience that brings their
moving story to life”.
On
The Web:
Website: www.blackeyedtheatre.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackeyedtheatr
Director Eliot
Giuralarocca
Composer Tom
Neill
Designer Victoria Spearing
Cast: James Howard, Ben Ashton
On Tour:
October
6 Roxburgh Theatre, Stowe - 7.30pm 01280 818012
7 Forum Theatre, Malvern - 7pm 01684
892277
8-9 Courtyard Theatre, Hereford - 7.30pm 01432 340555
10-11 Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple - 7.30pm 01271 324242
14 - 15 Layard Theatre, Wimborne - 7.30pm 01202 847525
16 Octagon Theatre, Yeovil - 7.30pm 01935 422884
17 - 18 Connaught
Theatre, Worthing - 7.30pm (+2pm Sat) 01903
206206
20 Theatre Royal, Margate - 7.30pm 01843 292795
21 - 22 Playhouse, Norwich - 7.30pm (Tue), 1pm (Wed) 01603
598598
24 Middlesbrough
Theatre - 7.30pm 01642
815181
25 The
Maltings Theatre, Berwick-upon-Tweed - 7.30pm 01289
330999
26 Alnwick
Playhouse - 7.30pm 01665
510785
28 Gaiety Theatre, Ayr - 7.30pm 01292 288235
29 Macrobert, Stirling - 7.30pm 01786 466666
30 - 31 Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy - 7.30pm (+10am Fri) 01592
583302
November
1 Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh - 7.30pm 0131 665 2240
3 Gala,
Durham - 7.30pm 03000
266600
4 Pocklington
Arts Centre - 7.30pm 01759
301547
7-8 The Atkinson, Southport - 7.30pm (+2pm Fri) 01704
533 333
10-11 Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton - 7.30pm (+1.30pm Tue) 01902
321321
12 Cornerstone, Didcot - 7.30pm 01235 515144
13 - 14 Arlington Arts, Newbury - 7.30pm (+1.30pm Fri) 01635
244246
17 Stahl Theatre, Oundle - 7.45pm 01832
273930
18 Buxton Opera House - 7.30pm 0845 127 2190
19 Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes - 7.30pm 01908 324466
20 Mansfield Palace Theatre - 7.30pm 01623 633133
21 The Civic, Barnsley - 7.30pm 01226 327000
25 - 27 Devonshire
Park, Eastbourne - 7.45pm (+2.30pm Wed) 01323
412000
28 Harrow Arts Centre - 7.30pm 020 8416 8989
29 Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells - 8pm 01892 678678
December
1-2 Mumford Theatre, Cambridge - 7.30pm 0845 1962320
4 Queen’s
Hall Arts Centre, Hexham - 7.30pm 01434 652477
5 Brewery
Arts Centre, Kendal - 8pm 01539
725133
6 Stafford Gatehouse Theatre - 7.30pm 01785 254653
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