{"product_id":"regeneration-nhb-modern-plays","title":"Regeneration (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects. Adapted from Pat Barker's Booker Prize-nominated novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. His Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches, yet under Sassoon's influence, has become tormented by the morality of what is being done in the name of medicine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, \u003ci\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/i\u003e opened at the Royal \u0026amp; Derngate, Northampton, in August 2014, before embarking on a national tour co-produced by Touring Consortium. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Wright\u003c\/b\u003e's plays include the acclaimed National Theatre adaptation of Philip Pullman's \u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMrs Klein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravelling Light\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVincent In Brixton\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2003. His writing about the theatre includes \u003ci\u003eChanging Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with Richard Eyre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[a] superb stage version of a work of genius... gutting and unmissable' - Independent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'shocking, tender and grimly funny... gently breaks your heart' - The Times \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'deeply moving... [a] humane and enriching play' - Guardian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pat-barker-books\"\u003ePat Barker\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nick Hern Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781848424401\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £6.96","offer_id":47917919404209,"sku":"SB-184842440X-C2","price":6.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/184842440X.jpg?v=1789697519","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/regeneration-nhb-modern-plays","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}