... from that curious vantage point. Bennett played a headmaster on the verge of retirement and attending his final school play, Speak for England, Arthur, a potted history of the century thus far, with an emphasis on war. The nature of the piece was both too ...

... scripted. His replies, erudite and considered, however, were by far the most revelatory. The geologist remained anonymous, but speaking with the gentle inflections of the north east, he repeated the Ancient Greek notion that: nothing is ever lost. It is simply ...

... but author Carolyn Scott-Jeffs, a recent graduate of David Edgar's MA course in playwriting, simplified it to three voices speaking out of the darkness. This was a play with a good plot, involving a lorry driver (Peter Meakin), his romantically frustrated ...