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    It Is Easy to Be Dead

    By Neil McPherson

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    ‘And your bright Promise, withered long and sped,

    Is touched, stirs, rises, opens and grows sweet

    And blossoms and is you, when you are dead.’

    When twenty year old Charles Sorley was killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents were left with only his letters and poems to remember him by. Using his extraordinary writings, together with music and songs from some of the greatest composers of the period, It Is Easy To Be Dead is a tender portrait of his brief life.

    Inspired by the pity of war, and his experiences in Germany – where he was briefly imprisoned as an enemy alien – Sorley’s poems are among the most ambivalent, profound and moving war poetry ever written, directly inspiring the grim disillusionment of later war poets such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen.

    It Is Easy To Be Dead received its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in June 2016, where it was nominated for seven OffWestEnd Awards, and transferred to Trafalgar Studios in November 2016.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOberon Books
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781786820105
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    It Is Easy to Be Dead
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    Neil McPherson

    Neil McPherson has been Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre since 1999. His award-winning first play I Wish to Die Singing – Voices From The Armenian Genocide was presented at the Finborough Theatre and an excerpt was performed concurrently in Los Angeles in 2015. It is also published by Oberon Books.

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