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Flying Bridge Theatre Company and Seabright Productions in association with Pleasance and Newport Live present Not About Heroes by Stephen McDonald Monday 30 October |
Following a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, this new production of the Fringe First Award winning play about celebrated WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a UK tour this autumn prior to international dates.Not About Heroes premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 35 years ago. This extraordinary play is set at Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917, where two poets bonded over a mutual hatred of war and love of poetry. When staged by the same director at Theatr Clwyd, the production won Best Actor at the Wales Theatre Awards for Daniel Llewelyn Williams, who reprises his role as Sassoon alongside Iestyn Arwel as Owen. ★★★★★ ‘Recreates the Great War as tangibly as if the theatre had filled with the smoke and stench of the battlefield. Compelling and superbly performed.’ British Theatre Guide Playwright Stephen MacDonald was a British actor, dramatist, novelist and director. He was brought up and educated in Birmingham, where he trained as an actor, and subsequently worked extensively in Scotland as a theatre director. He was instrumental in reviving the fortunes of Dundee Repertory Theatre after which he was appointed the Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 1976. His other plays include All Ayre & Fire, Billy Budd, Jungle Book as well as an adaptation of Uncle Vanya. He died in 2009. ‘A riveting portrait of literary mentorship.’ The Spectator Director Tim Baker has been the Associate Director of Theatr Clwyd since 1997 and Artistic Director of Theatr Clwyd Theatre for Young People. He has directed over 80 productions for Theatr Clwyd and two for the National Theatre of Wales. He is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, for services to the arts in Wales and in 2014 was made an Honorary Fellow of Glyndwr University, again for services to the arts in Wales. Between 2008 and 2012 Tim was Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Wales. Flying Bridge Theatre is a Welsh theatre company based in Newport, producing drama of the highest quality for everyone. Previous Edinburgh productions include the acclaimed A Regular Little Houdini, and this year the company also presents Between The Crosses at new venue Army at the Fringe in association with Summerhall. This UK tour of Not About Heroes is possible thanks to incredible support from Wales in Edinburgh funding from the Arts Council of Wales. It is part of a major world tour for the show, visiting over 30 venues this year alone. The running time is 2 hours including interval. Not About Heroes will be at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 30 October. Tickets are available from the Arts Centre Box Office on 01970 62 32 32 or online at www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk |
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