Not About Heroes Showing in London's West End, 7-18 November 2006

October 24, 2006

A production by Feelgood Theatre Productions of Stephen MacDonald’s acclaimed play 'Not About Heroes' will be showing in London's West End at Trafalgar Studios 2 (formerly the Whitehall Theatre - click link and scroll down webpage) in London's West End, Tuesday 7th - Saturday 18th November 2006.

BOX OFFICE: 0870 060 6632 (+44 870 060 6632 from outside the UK)

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TICKETS: GBP 20 Tuesday - Saturday evenings or matinees, GBP 15 Monday evenings or concessions

Not About Heroes 

'Move him into the sun – Gently, its touch awoke him once…' (FUTILITY, Wilfred Owen)

This critically acclaimed production opened last year at the Imperial War Museum North before transferring to the Cabinet War Rooms and now into the West End prior to a UK national tour.

During the First World War, two of England’s leading twentieth century war poets met in Craiglockhart War Hospital. Siegfried Sassoon was a decorated war hero who had been hospitalized after protesting against the continuing war. Wilfred Owen was a victim of shell shock and accused of cowardice. Upon returning to the front, Sassoon was shot in the head, but survived. Owen went on to win the Military Cross and die leading his men seven days before Armistice Day.

Stephen MacDonald’s acclaimed play is a moving celebration of their friendship, their poetry, the power of words and the futility of war.

'As a study of a friendship between two gifted men, it is absorbing. As a protest against the stupidity of war it is magnificent' (The Boston Globe)