Incoming
From: Saturday, 7th May 2011
To: Sunday, 8 May 2011
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Synopsis
I mean to start with it was all about Taliban, or al Qaeda or poppies or whatever. Then as soon as our boys get killed it's about them. I went out there to stop people fighting, now I'm part of the reason it goes on. Marvellous. Two months ago, Steph’s soldier husband was killed in Afghanistan. One winter morning, just before dawn, he appears. Incoming examines Britain's place in the world, the sacrifices made for that place and the repercussions, both private and public, of those sacrifices. It is a first play of true wisdom and sensitivity, by the poet, novelist, critic and academic, Andrew Motion.
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Anne Morley-Priestman - 7 May 2011
“Look after your people – that’s the first law” says career soldier Danny as he endeavours to explain what happened in Helman province to his widow, Steph. That’s right. To his widow. Andrew Motion’s one-act, three-scene play (hisf irst, incidentally) is about the pity rather than the tawdry glory of war. Less banners (even the saluting ones of Wootton Bassett) and trumpets, more improvised roadside devices and the rattle of outdated, but still death-dealing, firearms.
It’s very far from whimsy or consoling fantasy, of course. Steph has no alternative but to move on – from her Army house, being now a single mother, to securing an equitable future for herself and her son Jack. We never meet him in the flesh, but outside the house so full of packing cases and remembrances of times past is Sam, Danny best friend and now his widow’s main support.
Confronted by Danny, suited as she last saw him in the (remoulded) flesh be...
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catherine atkinson - 11 May 2011:
Content,actors, production and direction all amazing! Well done 'Hightide' and Andrew Motion!!...
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Andrew Motion (Author)
The Poetry Trust (Producer)
DanceEast (Producer)
Steven Atkinson (Director)
takis (Design)
Matt Prentice (Lighting)
Steve Mayo (Sound)
Simon Price (video) (Other)
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