New PDF release: First Light (Modern Plays)

By Mark Hayhurst

ISBN-10: 1350012467

ISBN-13: 9781350012462

Now. this night. sooner than we are despatched again to front. Take each piece of cash you were given. Ditch every thing else.

July 1916. Albert Ingham and Alfred Longshaw are crouched in a muddy, rat-infested trench in France. those sharp and humorous younger infantrymen from a battalion of the Manchester neighbors are approximately to participate in a single of the main savage attacks within the heritage of human battle, The conflict of the Somme.

Their survival is a miracle. Their corporation has misplaced six hundred males. beaten through the sheer horror of the event, neither of them dare stare extinction within the face back. So, once they are ordered to move to the computing device Gun Corps and go back to the blood-soaked entrance line, they make a decision, for the 1st time of their younger lives, to take their fragile future of their personal trembling hands.

But turning into a deserter, that almost all embarrassing and shameful type of scuffling with guy, takes extra braveness than they ever knew they had.

Mark Hayhurst's play is a gripping mystery that exposes the influence of the 1st international conflict on squaddies and their households. It follows his acclaimed debut at Chichester competition Theatre with Taken at Midnight in 2014, which transferred to the West finish the next 12 months. First mild received its global foremost at Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 10 June 2016.

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