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Mametz review A bloody battle on the Somme is evoked in a Welsh wood by Lyn Gardner

Great Llancayo Upper Wood, UskIn this fresh, visceral, time-bending piece, scripted by the Owen Sheers, the audience are cast as sightseers on a battlefield tour Reliving the horrors of MametzBlood and poetry flow as night falls in the Monmouthshire woods, where National Theatre Wales offers audiences a glimpse of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the Somme: the battle for Mametz Wood. Four thousand of the 38th (Wels…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM on June 27, 2014

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