... suggests those who make the war get on with it and leave him alone. His schoolboy friends play at soldiers and romp around the blackberry bushes, at first aware that something nasty has taken place and then becoming used to it. Clods like Willie Watson become ...

... the aloofness of Helen Anderson as Kathy, brushing a tear behind her diehard exterior of wandering through meals of wild blackberries, and the gullibility of Maureen Glackin's Ailish make this a play to remember. Triche Kehoe is responsible for the tree ...