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The Pity of War by Gwyn Edwards - a new production from On The Edge
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On The Edge
The Pity of War by Gwyn Edwards
With Mathew David
A script in hand performance directed by Peter Scott
Chapter, Cardiff Tues 4 March 8pm
The Dylan Thomas Centre Swansea Wed 5 March 7.30pm
Tickets £4
Many of us will have seen images of the First World War: masses of young men lying dead, deep in trenches of awful mud and worse and the long lines of the gleaming white identical graves stones in Northern France and elsewhere. In this futile slaughter over eight million men were killed, thirty seven million wounded. On 21 October 1915 Wilfred Owen enlisted in the Artists' Rifles Officers' Training Corps, he received the Military Cross for his bravery on the battlefield However, only one week before the end of the war, whilst attempting to traverse the Sambre canal, he was shot and killed. He was twenty five years old.
The genius of his poetry reflects these terrible times with a great poignancy and beauty Mathew David as the young poet/soldier takes us not only into on to the fields of battle but also with Gwynne Edwards carefully chosen words we hear his letter home to his mother, his time as President of the Mess with the key if the whisky store whilst training with horses in Abbeyville. We hear of the camaraderie of the men recovering in the field hospitals, of his meeting with Siegfried Sassoon, H G Wells and Robert Ross, friend of Oscar Wilde. We hear of the Welsh connections of the Shrewsbury born heroe.
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