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Article: HAYNES BUILDS UPON CHARACTER IN 'BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR'.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1988
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Byline: Martin P. Kelly Times Union Critic
The romantic notion of war ended abruptly when World War I broke out. Wild cavalry charges could be stopped by a couple of well-placed machine gun nests while millions of men learned that war was a matter of holing up for years in the dank and filthy trenches that scarred the countryside of France.
It was only when men turned their eyes to the sky that war seemed to remain the chivalrous conflict read about in story books.
"Billy Bishop Goes To War," written and first performed by two Canadian actors, John Gray and Eric Peterson, is the chronicle of one man's elevation from cavalry sad sack to the most ...