KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
It Is Easy to Be Dead, Finborough Theatre
Moving drama on untimely death of WWI poet Charles Hamilton Sorley
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OF SMALL comfort to theatre’s enduring existential crises during this unprecedented period is the ability to reach wider audiences online.
For a tiny hidden gem of a pub theatre such as the Finborough in West London, it is perhaps something they could look to utilise to take their productions beyond the 50, often sold-out, seats for their productions.
The story of first-world-war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley, the subject of It Is Easy to Be Dead, is certainly one a wider audience deserves to see.
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