Regeneration (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Pat Barker; Nicholas Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184842440X ISBN 13: 9781848424401

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2014

Synopsis

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. His Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches, yet under Sassoon's influence, has become tormented by the morality of what is being done in the name of medicine.

Marking the centenary of the start of the First World War, this new dramatisation of Pat Barker's haunting Booker-nominated novel is adapted by Olivier Award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright (His Dark Materials, Vincent In Brixton) and opens at Royal & Derngate prior to its national tour.

Reminding us that some of the most intimate of friendships are borne from the most brutal of conflicts, Regeneration is a compellingly compassionate look at a nihilistic war and the devastating effect it had on a generation of young men.

About this title

Review:

A superb stage version of Pat Barker's award-winning First World War novel... the material - presented through the physical immediacy of theatre - seems to get through to your neurological (as well as emotional, psychological and intellectual) depths... Gutting and unmissable. --Independent

Wright is a writer who specialises in translating real-life characters into truthfully embodied theatrical ones... A powerful stage version of Pat Barker's First World War novel. --The Stage

Nicholas Wright's deeply moving play stays true to Barker's vision while highlighting its own chosen themes of companionship, guilt and inequality... This humane and enriching play raises endless questions about the impact of war on individuals.... Superb. --Guardian

Book Description:

The first instalment in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184842440X
• ISBN 13: 9781848424401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96