Summary
Actor Tom Wisdom is going into uniform to play a World War One officer facing the nightmare of a suicide mission. He talks to VIV HARDWICK about the attraction of anti-war play Journey's End and his Mile High exploits on TV ONE of the world's greatest anti-war plays, Journey's End, opens its national tour at Newcastle's Theatre Royal next week and has already created a huge impression on the young actor picked to play the officer leading his men on a sucidal mission into No Man's Land.
Tom Wisdom - "no relation to Norman, but it was my nickname at school" - is actually 31, but looks a good ten years younger and the ideal actor to play a junior officer promoted way beyond his tender years.See the full content of this document
Extract
Theatre - War As Hell
The actor has visited the war graves in France and seen that they are mostly for young men aged 18 to 21. The play focuses on the last days of the war in 1918 when only the lucky ones had survived four year...
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