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'No two women have ever been surrounded by so much male flesh'. Set in 1920 on the empty battlefields of World War One, Howard Barker's satirical drama explores the social effects of the war on English society. A grieving mother and her suffragette daughter return to the site of mass death and destruction to claim back the body of her son, while the government is constructing the massive war cemeteries to honour the fallen. Into this scenario is placed a remorseful Prince of Wales and an unscrupulous undertaker and his assistant, whose aim of making profit from the dead is aided and abetted by a group of war veterans who themselves are being recruited for the Empire's new war in Ireland. Howard Barker's scabrous attack on class war, sexual politics and national identity is brought to you by students on the BA (Hons) Performing Arts degree at the Newport campus of the University of South Wales.

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Author: Howard Barker
Presented by: University of South Wales (Performing Arts degree students)