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1 – Plot (and sub plot)
The play tells the story of a group of men and women from Accrington (Lancashire) the men form a battalion to fight in the war, while the women stay at home. ...
The play tells the story of:
May, owns a market stall
Tom, an apprentice who joins the battalion (is killed at the Somme)
Ralph, a clerk who joins the battalion (is killed at the Somme)
Eva, a mill girl sent to Accrington from a farm in the country
Sarah, a married mill worker
Bertha, a mill girl
Annie, housewife, has problems with her child who is
Reggie
Arthur, her husband who joins the battalion (is killed at the Somme)
CSM Rivers, a soldier
On the one hand we see the tragic story of these men who go to fight in the war, and the women they leave behind, but also the romantic sub plot between May and Tom, that also turns out to be a tragic love story itself. ...
Based upon real life historical fact, The Accrington Pals was a battalion raised in the initial months of world war one (which broke put in 1914), in a response to Kitchener’s idea that men would work better amongst people they knew well (it was thought that more men would enlist if they were allowed to fight alongside their friends, relatives and neighbors)
Groups of men in Accrington came together to form a battalion with a distinctively local identity, second to that Accrington was the smallest community in the UK to raise its own battalion – it took them only ten days to raise over a thousand men to fight for King and country, and in only twenty minutes most of them were killed on the Somme.
To be specific over 1000 Accrington men marched off to the front, only seven returned, many even have no known grave. ...
The social aspects of the play were as follows:
The play is set in the working class mill town of Accrington, Lancashire. ...
In terms of setting, (working class Accrington) the language is appropriate, especially in the live performance I saw. ... Here we are in your town”
For the scenes where we see men at war one can notice a somewhat dramatic language contrast – their fear comes out in their fowl language (swearing) that by no means is seen in the scene where they are at home in Accrington. ...
4 – Visual, aural and/or spatial elements
Above is a diagram of how the set was in the production of Accrington Pals that we saw.
I was impressed by the naturalistic look of what I can imagine Accrington (at the time the play was set) to have looked like.
Approximate Word count = 2237
Approximate Pages = 8.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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