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Death Comes for the War Poets by Darryl Reilly

In the play which is billed as "a dramatic verse tapestry," playwright Joseph Pearce ably weaves together poems and diary entries by Sassoon and Owen with extracts of other writers of the era.  Though Mr. Pearce identifies the characters as the English Sassoon and Owen, he provides scant biographical details about them. From this treatment, they could be any British young men of that time.  The post Death Comes…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PM on June 17, 2017

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