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A Soldier's Song
Drum Theatre, Plymouth - 1997
Adapted from the book by Ken Lukowiak
In 1979 Private Lukowiak was a virgin soldier. In 1982 he went to war, He was away from home a little over eigbt weeks, but the madness and black comedy of active duty in tbe Falklands changed his life ... forever.
Since then he has returned to the Falklands as a journalist and travelled for the first time to Argentina to meet the men he fought, confront his past and undergo trial by television. Now, nearly fifteen years to the day that the task force set sail Ken Lukowiak's book A Soldier's Song is brought to the stage in a funny and deeply moving production.
Director | Hugh Janes |
Designer | Will Hargreaves |
Cast: | |
Ken | Grant Russell |
Frank | Philip Woodford |
Grandad | Bill Bingham |
Bill | Stephen Benson |
Carol | Polly Hayes |
~ Hugh Janes ~ writer ~ author ~ Playwright ~ Screenwriter ~ Plays ~ television ~ films ~ filmwriter ~ wide blue yonder ~ the haunting ~ two of a kind ~ the perfect murder ~ deadlock ~ master forger ~ a soldier's song ~ the complete ring of the nibelung