![]() Given the onslaught of so-so digital offerings during lockdown, I expected it to be at best serviceable, at worst, amateurish.įar from it: co-directed by Alastair Whatley and Charlotte Peters, this is the most assured such project to have emerged so far – technologically accomplished, beautifully acted, and emotionally riveting. As a means of honouring the grim moment, The Original Theatre Company are releasing an online dramatisation of Sebastian Faulks’s 1993 novel Birdsong, which hops about a lot in time but dwells on that dark chapter of the Great War.Īs it’s being presented to help raise funds for the Royal British Legion, it’s easy enough to assume that the short-lived release (available for 72 hours) ranks as a well-intentioned endeavour. ![]() Today – July 1 – marks the 104th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, a welter of senseless carnage unmatched in our army’s history. ![]()
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