The Unknown Soldier
Don't, for God's sake, come back alive 'cause we don't want to see your ugly stumps and your ugly scars. We don't want to hear your midnight screams and tales of hell. We all got along nicely without you, thank you very much, and now you're back you remind us things we'd much rather forget. More convenient, ain't it? To have a dead hero. A dead hero don't have complaints. A dead hero don't even have a voice.

Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend. And amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something - looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals.

A story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept following the carnage of World War One from the acclaimed writer of Casualties, Ross Ericson. It received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 before embarking on a UK tour.

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The Unknown Soldier
Don't, for God's sake, come back alive 'cause we don't want to see your ugly stumps and your ugly scars. We don't want to hear your midnight screams and tales of hell. We all got along nicely without you, thank you very much, and now you're back you remind us things we'd much rather forget. More convenient, ain't it? To have a dead hero. A dead hero don't have complaints. A dead hero don't even have a voice.

Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend. And amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something - looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals.

A story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept following the carnage of World War One from the acclaimed writer of Casualties, Ross Ericson. It received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 before embarking on a UK tour.

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The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier

by Ross Ericson
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Overview

Don't, for God's sake, come back alive 'cause we don't want to see your ugly stumps and your ugly scars. We don't want to hear your midnight screams and tales of hell. We all got along nicely without you, thank you very much, and now you're back you remind us things we'd much rather forget. More convenient, ain't it? To have a dead hero. A dead hero don't have complaints. A dead hero don't even have a voice.

Jack stayed on when the guns fells silent, to search the battlefields for the boys that could not go home - for the dead and the missing, for both enemy and friend. And amongst the rusty wire and unexploded bombs, Jack is looking for something - looking for someone. He has a promise to keep and debt to repay, and now there is this strange request from the generals.

A story of comradeship, betrayal and of promises both broken and kept following the carnage of World War One from the acclaimed writer of Casualties, Ross Ericson. It received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 before embarking on a UK tour.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350012486
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/15/2016
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Ross Ericson is an accomplished British actor and writer. His other plays include Casualties, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones, Punchline, Life and The Autumn of Han.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments x

1 Sweet on the Inside: Trauma, Memory, and Israeli Cinema Boaz Hagin Raz Yosef 1

2 Postscript to Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation Ella Shohat 21

3 Gender, the Military, Memory, and the Photograph: Tamar Yarom's To See If I'm Smiling and American Films about Abu Ghraib Diane Waldman 51

4 The Event and the Picture: David Perlov's My Stills and Memories of the Eichmann Trial Anat Zanger 73

5 The Agonies of an Eternal Victim: Zionist Guilt in Avi Mograbi's Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi Shmulik Duvdevani 93

6 Traces of War: Memory, Trauma, and the Archive in Joseph Cedar's Beaufort Raz Yosef 117

7 Memory of a Death Foretold: Fathers and Sons in Assi Dayan's "Trilogy" Yael Munk 147

8 Queering Terror: Trauma, Race, and Nationalism in Palestinian and Israeli Gay Cinema during the Second Intifada Raya Morag 167

9 "Our Traumas": Terrorism, Tradition, and Mind Games in Frozen Days Boaz Hagin 199

10 History of Violence: From the Trauma of Expulsion to the Holocaust in Israeli Cinema Nurith Gertz Gal Hermoni 223

11 Last Train to the Holocaust Judd Ne'eman Nerit Grossman 263

12 Passages, Wars, and Encounters with Death: The Desert as a Site of Memory in Israeli Film Yael Zerubavel 299

13 "Walking through walls": Documentary Film and Other Technologies of Navigation, Aspiration, and Memory Janet Walker 329

Notes on Contributors 357

Index 361

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