Plays

Printer Friendly

Holding Hands at Paschendale

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Martin Lynch 

  • Setting

    Passendale, Belgium, 1917

  • Synopsis

    Mo Coutts, a London Kitchener volunteer, is arrested for refusing to go over the top during the 3rd Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Willie Harvey is a Belfast man ordered who arrests him, and regards him as nothing but a coward. Handcuffed together as they await Mo's Court Marshal, each is forced to reassess his opinion on the war.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

    • Cast size

  • Male

    2

  • Total

    2

Original Production

  • Date of First Production

    13 October 2006

  • Original Venue

    Lyric Theatre

Original Cast  
Willie Harvey Ciaran McMenamin
Mo Coutts Freddy White
Production Team  
Director Hannah Eidinow
Set Designer Mike Lees

Unpublished Scripts

Rights Information

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was drawn from the festival programme and press cuttings.