FOR KING AND COUNTRY Begins Tour And Launches New Website

This spring, John Wilson's searing play about a young Private's desertion from the trenches during World War One begins its journey at Plymouth Theatre Royal on Wednesday 25 February before visiting Cheltenham, Coventry, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Belfast. This play begins their seven-venue tour on February 25 at Theater Royal Plymouth.

Coinciding with the opening, the producers unveiled the show's new website, available by clicking: www.forkingandcountry.co.uk

An army lawyer steps forward to defend a young private charged with desertion during World War One. The prisoner's devastating experience of the front changes the lawyer's outlook on war. His sense of duty to the boy becomes a passionate compulsion to save him from the firing squad.

The noise of raging battle drifts into the dilapidated château which is the private's makeshift cell and courtroom. It is the simplicity of his decision to leave the front that robs the military machine of its self-justification and challenges the notion of justice.

In today's world, where conflict is rife and ideas of duty and sacrifice carry such weight, the tale of this unlikely hero cannily exposes the impact of war past and present.
John Hurt made his name in the original production of this classic in 1964. In the same year Joseph Losey's film adaptation, starring Tom Courtenay and Dirk Bogarde, won the British Academy Award for Best Picture.

For King and Country is directed by distinguished director TRISTRAM POWELL whose credits include the forthcoming UK series of Law and Order, several series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads for the BBC, the wartime detective drama Foyle's War for ITV, Kavanagh QC, Judge John Deed, and Lynda La Plante's Trial and Retribution and The Commander. He directed the award-winning feature film American Friends, starring Michael Palin and Connie Booth. He won a BAFTA for We Think The World Of You and has been a BAFTA nominee on two other occasions.

Starring Robert Ashcroft, Douglad Bruce-Lockhart, Kevin Doyle, Patrick Drury, Adam Gillen, John Hollingworth, and Tomos James.

Plymouth Theatre Royal
Wednesday 25 - Saturday 28 February
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 March
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 March
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 March
Kings Theatre, Edinburgh
Tuesday 31 March - Saturday 4 April
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 April
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 April