Dalcrue farm, PitcairngreenIn a field in Perthshire at dawn, this spine-tingling music-theatre piece told the stories of 306 traumatised young men who were executed for cowardice There's mounting evidence that every playwright recruited to write about the first world war is issued with a kit bag containing three obligatory scenes. There's the one in a recruitment office where a schoolboy lies about his age; the one about a soldier saying goodbye to his sweetheart; and, of course, the one about t...
The 306: Dawn review - an emotive tribute to the soldiers that history forgot
The Guardian - 31 May 2016 15:19
Dalcrue farm, PitcairngreenIn a field in Perthshire at dawn, this spine-tingling music-theatre piece told the stories of 306 traumatised young men who were executed for cowardice There's mounting evidence that every playwright recruited to write about the first world war is issued with a kit bag containing three obligatory scenes. There's the one in a recruitment office where a schoolboy lies about his age; the one about a soldier saying goodbye to his sweetheart; and, of course, the one about t...
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