A War of Two Halves

So glad I went to this! My interest in football is virtually nil, but this story of the Hearts team (riding high on success at the time) joining up as a "Pals Regiment" during WW1 was engrossing, exciting, moving & ultimately tragic.
Wonderfully staged around the Tynecastle stadium, ending in the moving memorial garden.
Rain came on during the scene in the trenches - somehow sitting on a hard step, getting wet was a very appropriate audience experience!

Excellent - do go!

An amazing show. Saw it last year but found it even more moving ‘this year. A wonderfully well told story in the setting of beautiful Tynecastle. The writers said on Kickback this might be the last run of the show so don’t hesitate and get on down to see it, whoever you support even if that’s no one!

Oh. My. God.

To think we nearly didn’t go because rain was expected and we’d been warned to wear weather-appropriate clothing as the peripatetic performance involved some walking outside*

This is one of the most moving, affecting plays I’ve seen in a while. Cleverly conceived, it shows us the progress of Heart of Midlothian’s 1914-15 season as World War I intervenes and press and public pressure is placed on the players to sign up. Each act takes place in a different part of the ground: We move from director’s box to changing rooms to concourse to improvised trenches in France, and finally, the garden of remembrance to the fallen that exists in the ground. And this points to the real triumph of the play, This is no money-spinning gimmick – it flows seamlessly from the respect that the club has for their history and that of the team that sacrificed so much for their country. The performances are flawless, the engagement you form with the characters they play is intense and … there will be tears in the end. Respect to the club.

* In the end the forecast was wrong, it was largely fair and sunny and anyway so little is in the open air it would have to be pretty squally to spoil the performance.