Photo Flash: First Look at FOR KING AND COUNTRY at Southwark Playhouse

Production photos have been released for For King and Country at Southwark Playhouse. Check them out below!

Press night was last night and the show runs until 21 July.

John Wilson's military courtroom drama will be seen in London for the first time in over 30 years this summer to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. For King and Country follows a soldier's court martial for desertion and the struggle of his defending officer to acquit the young man in the face of bureaucracy and his own naïve honesty. Many years before PTSD was officially recognised, it explores the brutality of war and what happened to the men who could take no more. The play was originally performed as Hamp at the Edinburgh Festival in 1964 by a cast including Leonard Rossiter, John Hurt and Richard Briers, and was adapted into the BAFTA-nominated film King and Country.

1918. The Western Front. Private Hamp, a young working-class soldier from Lancashire, has been in the front-line of a bloody battlefield for three years. One day he decides to walk away...

For King and Country follows the shell-shocked soldier's trial for desertion, and his defending officer's fight to keep him from the firing squad.

Cast
Fergal Coghlan
Andrew Cullum
Peter Ellis
Lloyd Everitt
Adam Lawrence
Henry Proffit
Cameron Robertson
Nik Salmon
Eugene Simon
Thomas Weir

Company
Written by John Wilson
Directed by Paul Tomlinson
Design by Jacqueline Gunn
Produced by Alexander Neal
Lighting Design by Robbie Butler
Sound Design by Philip Matejtshuk

Tickets: £20 (£16 concs) except Mon 9th | www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk | 020 7407 0234
Monday 9th July: £20 Gala Night in support of the Royal British Legion

Photo Credit: Alex Brenner

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