NAM.2014-11-17-1

Theatre programme for Nicholas Wright’s stage adaptation of the novel ‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker, Darlington Civic Theatre, 11-15 November 2014. Production co-produced by Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Royal and Derngate, Northampton. Associated with William Halse Rivers Rivers, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918) and World War One, Home Front (1914-1918). The play is an adaptation of Pat Barker’s 1991 novel of the same name. It centres on Craiglockhart War Hospital and the efforts of the neurologist William Halse Rivers Rivers, played by Stephen Boxer. It also examines the meeting between Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen and the effects on their war poetry. Another of the characters is Robert Graves.

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)