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This Wretched Splendour/Wild with All Regrets

Rebecca Wilby
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      This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stage play in two acts. Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour - the only defence against a bleak and mindless war. This new edition of This Wretched Splendour includes a one-act play, Wild With All Regrets, an evocative biographical drama woven from the words and experiences of Wilfred Owen on the Western Front. "The standard first world war play is still RC Sherriff's Journey's End. But Rebecca Wilby, a 29-year-old from Cheltenham, knocks it into a cocked hat with This Wretched Splendour. Where Sherriff's play is steeped in the public-school ethos, this one conveys the eccentric humanity and the tragedy of life at the front line." Michael Billington, The Guardian
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Rebecca Wilby EAN: 9781908011930 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Skylight Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-08-31 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      c 1910 to c 1919, Plays, playscripts

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      This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stage play in two acts. Seven bored and demoralised survivors in a Flanders trench in 1916 find their lives transformed by the arrival of a new officer, David Cartwright. With his bright charisma and subversive approach to authority he inspires them to face their seemingly inevitable fate with courage, high-spirited stoicism and a sanguine sense of humour - the only defence against a bleak and mindless war. This new edition of This Wretched Splendour includes a one-act play, Wild With All Regrets, an evocative biographical drama woven from the words and experiences of Wilfred Owen on the Western Front. "The standard first world war play is still RC Sherriff's Journey's End. But Rebecca Wilby, a 29-year-old from Cheltenham, knocks it into a cocked hat with This Wretched Splendour. Where Sherriff's play is steeped in the public-school ethos, this one conveys the eccentric humanity and the tragedy of life at the front line." Michael Billington, The Guardian
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Rebecca Wilby EAN: 9781908011930 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Skylight Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-08-31 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      c 1910 to c 1919, Plays, playscripts

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