Not About Heroes, By Stephen MacDonald
Directed by Sallyanne Scotton Moonga
The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, UK
The Play
The horrors and futility of war are brilliantly captured in this intensely moving play. Using their actual letters, diaries and poems, Stephen MacDonald examines the brief but poignant relationship between the Great War poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen – from their first meeting in July 1917 at Craiglockhart War Hospital for Nervous Disorders, until Owen’s death on the Western Front one week before the Armistice, November 1918.
Audience responses
"Deeply moving and beautifully performed and directed production" - Gary Spruce
"Touching performances and assured direction - to say nothing of a really fine play - make this a production really worth taking the trouble to see." - Colin Simmonds
"This is a very, very special experience. Thank you to everyone involved." Simon King
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