The Silver Tassie

…Lyttelton Theatre, The National

A play set in the First World War.

‘In one of the most dazzling coups I've ever witnessed, the transition to the war zone is achieved through a visual and aural bombardment that shows how even the battlefront has echoes of the world left behind: a Dublin backdrop turns into a ruined monastery and a wounded soldier crouches on the remains of a tenement fireplace.’ Michael Billington, Guardian

‘The production conjures up the terror of war with some of the most shattering pyrotechnics effects I have ever seen and heard in a theatre.’ Charles Spencer, Telegraph