This week's A Play, A Pie, and A Pint serving offers up a double bill of short dramas, looking at the effect the horrors of war have on front-line soldiers.
This week's A Play, A Pie, and A Pint serving offers up a double bill of short dramas, looking at the effect the horrors of war have on front-line soldiers.
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Alan Chadwick
Weakest of the two by a long way is Loyalty by Mike Gonzalez. In it Daniel Boyd plays a young man on the dole with no family and no prospects who signs up for, what he's promised by Harry Ward's army recruitment officer, is a well-paid profession, full of "opportunity" and "adventure". Once on tour of duty he becomes disillusioned and questions what he's fighting for. The blatantly obvious socio-political observation that poor, working class youth make up much of the armed forces, turned into a few scenes, isn't so much thin as positively anorexic.
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