A very powerful and haunting performance, with BAFTA nomination for Michael Jayston, Monte Carlo festival award. Siegfried Sassoon (Military Cross) earned the nickname "Mad Jack" for his near-suicidal exploits against the German lines in WW1. He was decorated for bravery. The play is about his powerful protest against the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War. Interestingly, Michael Jayston played war poet Wilfred Owen too, in 1970. Starring Michael Jayston, Michael Pennington, David Wood, Clive Swift, Charles Lewsen, Anna Barry, John Boxer, Jonathan Cecil, Donald Sumpter. Directed by Jack Gold. Screenplay by Tom Clark.
''...Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same—and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?
''''...Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same—and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.''
(From "Aftermath" by Siegfried Sassoon)
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