Not About Heroes

Not About Heroes is a drama by Scottish playwright Stephen MacDonald [1] (1933-2009)

The original text

A play about the real-life relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The play has only two characters: Owen and Sassoon. The story of their friendship is told in a series of flashbacks, narrated by Sassoon who survived World War I (in which Owen was killed). Most of the scenes take place during their time as fellow-patients at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in 1917.

First performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. Published by Faber in 1983.

Performance history in South Africa

1985: Volute Productions produced the play at the Baxter Studio in 1985. Directed by Keith Grenville, it starred Jon Maytham and Dawid Minnaar.

1986: The Volute Productions production performed in the Market Theatre with the same cast.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_About_Heroes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_MacDonald

Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne 1988.

Theatre programme (1985) donated by Tony Fletcher, held by NELM: [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 9.

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