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Not About Heroes play

Event Name Not About Heroes play
Start Date Nov 7, 2014 3:30 pm
End Date Nov 7, 2014 3:30 pm
Description

The extraordinary friendship of poets Wilfred Owen (Patrick Magee) and Siegfried Sassoon (Roger Gimblett) is brought to life in this poignant, funny and ultimately deeply moving play. During World War One, two of England's greatest poets met in Craiglockhart War Hospital. This is their story. Sassoon was a decorated war-hero hospitalised for insanity after protesting against the continuing war; Wilfred Owen was a victim of shell-shock, accused of cowardice, who went on to win a Military Cross, die in the trenches, and receive posthumous fame as the greatest poet of the War. Stephen MacDonald's play dramatises the story of the friendship that transformed them both.