There's no attempt to romanticise the hero of Nick Dear's new play about the Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas. Thomas, who died in action in the Battle of Arras in 1917 after enlisting at the age of 39 " far too old to have had to fight " is played by Pip Carter as prickly, petulant and with an alarmingly misogynistic streak. He tramples over the feelings of his adoring wife Helen and displays an unattractive physical …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:22AM on November 16, 2012