Regeneration
$30.56
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2014
Summary
A powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects. Adapted from Pat Barker’s Booker Prize-nominated novel.
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. His Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches, yet under Sassoon’s influence, has…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848424401 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184842440X |
| Author: | Pat Barker, Nicholas Wright |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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’[a] superb stage version of a work of genius… gutting and unmissable’
’[A] superb stage version of a work of genius… gutting and unmissable’
* Independent *‘Shocking, tender and grimly funny… gently breaks your heart’
* The Times *‘Deeply moving… [a] humane and enriching play’
* Guardian *About The Author
Pat Barker
Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include: 8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2019); an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre, 2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration (Royal & Derngate, Northampton, 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre, 2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Rattigan’s Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2011); The Reporter (National Theatre, 2007); a version of Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin (National Theatre, 2006); an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (National Theatre, 2003-4); Vincent In Brixton (National Theatre, 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello’s Naked (Almeida Theatre, 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End, 1988).His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard Eyre.
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