Chris_Baker Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Telegraph newspaper: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/9950099/War-Horse-author-Michael-Morpurgo-to-turn-First-World-War-battlefield-into-a-theatre.html "An abridged version of the play will be performed on the battlefield at Ypres on the centenary of the outbreak of the war". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 And Virginia McKenna is playing a part ? inside right or the goalie ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 C******s truce in August? Going for historical accuracy then...or do the poor luvvies not relish the idea of the cold and rain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Lees Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Another fairy tale - I can't wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 The press (and others) insist on referring to a 'football match', as if they were lined up in numbered shirts, 11 a side, whistle and flags. A load of cobblers (not Northampton Town), in my opinion. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 I look forward to, er no .... I await, a campaign for an posthumous MC (under modern rules) for every participant in the Christmas Truce. OK, maybe just an MID,; let's be reasonable. There must be recommendations somewhere ... Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Tucker Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 I think we need a new thread dedicated to Centenary inaccuracies and stupidities. This is a classic case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 I take it you've all read the script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWills Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 The press (and others) insist on referring to a 'football match', as if they were lined up in numbered shirts, 11 a side, whistle and flags. A load of cobblers (not Northampton Town), in my opinion. D Daggers - is this a deliberate clause to exclude Walter Tull! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Lees Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 I take it you've all read the script. No, but I saw War Horse. I base my 'fairy tale' comment on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Martin I could have put a different word, but found cobblers had appeared on the page, which took me back to my two years in Northampton, as a Saints supporter - then! D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Agh. The curse of St Morpurgo strikes again. We can only wish him every success and hope Snows are present on the great day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxi Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 I have never seen a credible game of football enacted by thespians, Escape to Victory in the cinema comes to mind. Will Vinnie Jones appear pretending to be a footballer as he made whole career out of that role for Wimbledon if I recall. Maxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Vinnie was a folk hero for the Real Dons. Tread gently for tread upon my football dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Dragon, I must admit that I have not read the script but from the horse's mouth (that is if the Telegraph's Mandrake has the tips straight from the stable) [please excuse the awful word play] Mandrake can disclose that Morpurgo has written an emotional new work focusing on the football match that was played between German and British troops on no man’s land during the brief Christmas Day truce in 1914. Food, cigarettes and souvenirs were exchanged, addresses swapped and Christmas carols sung in unison. "...this new work about the football match is so brilliant," (Virginia McKenna). I have a bad feeling about myth and misinformation. Still, on the plus side, it can't actually be a truly 'emotional new work' about a football match without featuring a cameo appearance by Sir Alex Ferguson (or maybe an emotional non-appearance) so maybe we are safe. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Riley Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 Agh. The curse of St Morpurgo strikes again. We can only wish him every success and hope Snows are present on the great day Excellent double entendre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 A chance for Eric Cantona to show some more of his acting skills , still can't work out where Virgina McKenna fits in though . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxi Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 still can't work out where Virgina McKenna fits in though Love interest possibly? Well she does it for me. Maxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exuser1 Posted 24 March , 2013 Share Posted 24 March , 2013 still can't work out where Virgina McKenna fits in though Love interest possibly? Well she does it for me. Maxi She may have done it for me back in the days of Smallest Show on Earth , but not sure these days , perhaps she's some ones granny , and she washes the team shirts ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 25 March , 2013 Share Posted 25 March , 2013 Just make sure she doesn't get her hands on a sten gun with all those huns running around, it ended in disaster last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobL Posted 25 March , 2013 Share Posted 25 March , 2013 Hope they do it properly with greatcoats, balaclavas, scarves, goatskins etc, no matter the weather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBairnsfather Posted 13 April , 2013 Share Posted 13 April , 2013 Michael Morpurgo has written this new play but Bruce Bairnsfather, who took part in the 1914 Christmas Truce, wrote possibly the first script about the Truce to be produced on stage or screen. In 1929 he wrote a scenario in which Old Bill, Bert and Alf 'fraternise' with a German soldier on Christmas Day. The German, who is found to have worked in London as a waiter before the war, is killed while attempting to return to his own trench. Bairnsfather's story was filmed by RKO as a 17 minute talkie titled "Old Bill's Christmas" and released in cinemas worldwide in 1930. I have the script, but sadly the film has not survived. Old Bill was played by British actor Henry Wenman, who filmed this in between appearing as Second Lieutenant Trotter in R S Sherriff's"Journey's End" at New York's Henry Miller Theatre. Wenman had previously played Old Bill in 1917-19 in a touring company of "The Better 'Ole." Perhaps someone could stage a performance of "Old Bill's Christmas" to mark the actual centenary of the Truce in December 2014! Mark Warby, The Bruce Bairnsfather Society Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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