First Light review " questions of courage and cowardice in tale of a war deserter
Minerva, ChichesterMark Hayhurst's play about a court-martialled first world war soldier is sharply intelligent and emotionally joltingThe canon of first world war drama is already vast. Mark Hayhurst, dealing with a Lancashire regiment of doomed friends very similar to the one that inspired Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals, succeeds in covering original ground in the disturbing story behind a gravestone in a Frenc…