Private Peaceful
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 30, 2006
Closed Jun 11, 2006
Opened May 30, 2006
Closed Jun 11, 2006
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Private Peaceful, presented as a part of the 2006 Brits Off Broadway series, is a vivid and searing tale of a 16-year-old World War 1 soldier's final hours before a dawn execution by firing squad. Tommo Peaceful looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon; his exciting first days of school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line.
Adapted by Bristol Old Vic's Artistic Director, Simon Reade, from the book by Michael Morpurgo, Children's Laureate, the production is directed by Simon Reade.
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Private Tommo Peaceful (Alexander Campbell) doesn't immediately say why he's reliving his life through a long and sleepless night in Flanders Fields in 1916, but the program -- as well as the welter of advance publicity -- for Private Peaceful is explicit: The 17-year-old soldier, who unself-consciously exhibits his heroism during the course of these recollections, is to be shot at dawn for cowardice.
It's clear that this 80-minute adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel for young adults is a polemic. Both award-winning author Morpurgo and adapter-director Simon Reade are crusading in the best manner they know as men of books and the theater to get pardons for the 300 or so World War I sol[...]