Craiglockhart, Scotland, 1917. In a hospital for shell-shocked officers,
a brilliant doctor provides the cures required to send his patients back
to War. Under his tolerant reign, two young officers form a passionate
comradeship. Each is a poet, one unknown, the other privileged and
successful. Mentored by the older man, the younger falls in love; his
genius flowers and he becomes the greater writer. But as his health is
restored, he must face a return to battle.
**
"Nicholas Wright's deeply moving play stays true to Barker's vision
while highlighting its own chosen themes of companionship, guilt and
inequality" Michael Billington, Guardian
"I was raptly absorbed throughout by this superb stage version of Pat
Barker's award-winning First World War novel...gutting and unmissable"
Paul Taylor, The Independent