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Tag Archives: war
A Play For Today
To say that Owen Sheers and the National Theatre of Wales have some history would be an understatement. Their last collaboration, The Passion, not only garnered rave reviews from critics, it also made a whole town a theatre, its people … Continue reading
Posted in Cardiff, Poetry, Theatre
Tagged interview, Mametz, National Theatre of Wales, Owen Sheers, Pink Mist, Preview, Skirrid Hill, theatre, Wales, war
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‘The Horror, The Horror’
There was a headline in the news recently about the cost of the war in Afghanistan. Apparently, we’ve all paid more than £2,000 for what seemed, even from the beginning, a futile exercise. What struck me was not the waste … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, review
Tagged fiction, Kevin Powers, literature, The Yellow Birds, war
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