Heartbreaking and Timely Tale From the Front Line

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Private Peaceful Assembly Rooms until August 29 5/5 Herbie Treehead's Dinosaur Circus Pod Deco until August 29 3/5 Bristol Old Vic's stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's first world war novel, Private Peaceful, is a searing piece of children's theatre - as moving as the poetry of Wilfred Owen and as painfully memorable as white-hot shrapnel.

On the night before Private "Tommo" Peaceful is to be executed for disobeying an order on the front line, he recounts his life story, all 18 years of it, from growing up in pastoral Devon with his older brother, to lying about his age to enlist in the army.

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Heartbreaking and Timely Tale From the Front Line

Cast as Peaceful, Paul Chequer does not merely get his teeth into the part but devours it whole. The play'...

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