![]() ![]() ![]() Starring Jack Holden (War Horse) and directed by Fringe First winner David Mercatali (Dark Vanilla Jungle), this is the perfect play to mark the centenary of World War One.Ī brutal, intense one man show with an incredibly powerful message about the cruelty of war and the way the military treats those who suffer in its service. Metal Rabbit brings the UK premiere of Oscar-winner Dalton Trumbo’s classic anti-war novel to Southwark Playhouse in the form of Bradley Rand Smith’s Obie-winning adaptation. The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. As his grip on reality becomes ever more tenuous he reflects on the true nature of war and the choices he made. A filmed live theater performance starring Ben McKenzie of the Off-Broadway stage monologue adapted from Dalton Trumbos classic anti-war novel. Now he has paid a price he never expected, and far away from his American homeland he struggles to come to terms with what his world has become. Joe goes home to see his mother and sees men are taking away his father’s body. When he goes to answer the phone, he learns that his father has died. He feels like he’s waking up from a hangover. When the call came, idealistic Joe Bonham eagerly volunteered for the trenches of World War One. Joe Bonham wakes up to the sound of a phone ringing at the bakery in Los Angeles where he works. ![]() But it’s time two people had a say in things: us little guys and the dead.” “Always here the same people willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. Trumbo conceived of the project of Johnny Got His Gun early in the 1930s, after reading an article about the Prince of Waless visit to a Canadian veterans hospital to see a soldier who had lost all of his senses and his limbs. ![]()
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