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Article: Battle scars
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- Isthmus
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- March 24, 2006
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Battle scars
Sons of Ulster takes a timely look at war's futility
Bartell Theatre's dark, low Evjue Stage is an appropriate setting for Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a spectral play about the brutal tragedies of war. Frank McGuinness, one of Ireland's foremost contemporary playwrights, has set the play in another time and in the context of other wars, but I doubt it was by accident that Strollers Theatre scheduled this challenging production during the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
In the opening monologue, old Kenneth Pyper (Donavon Armbruster) calls his dead comrades back into being as he remembers the battle of the Somme in World War I. Pyper was the ...
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