All Bogged Down In the Trenches by Gordon Cox

Actually, it's a pretty good title. Frank McGuinness' 1985 play about eight young Irishmen in World War I is called - take a deep breath now - "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme," and sure, that overlong phrase echoes with forced bombast and faux lyricism. But so, it turns out, does the play, so the title seems a perfect match for a script as earnestly, righteously overblown as this one.

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