About Tommy
by Thor Bjorn Krebs, translated by David Duchin

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About the play

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Brother Tongue presented the UK premiere of About Tommy at Southwark Playhouse in March/April 2009.

Based on real accounts of the recent war in the former Yugoslavia, About Tommy tells the absurd and tragicomic story of a young soldier trying to preserve his humanity against all the odds. After critical success in Copenhagen and Berlin, this vivid new Danish play was brought to London by Brother Tongue, in a new translation by David Duchin.

Cast: Gwilym Lee, Hywel Morgan and Beatrice Curnew

Directed by Elly Green

Designed by Signe Beckmann

Lighting Design by Anna Watson

Sound Design by Matt Downing

Video Design by Hywel Morgan

Co-Produced by David Luff

Reviews:

“We are transported from the boozy camaraderie of the saloon bar to the twitchy boredom of surveillance and the bloody thick of the fighting.”

*** The Times

“In one of the most powerful scenes of Elly Green’s visually eloquent production, the audiences watch a live nightcam recording of Tommy (Gwilym Lee) as he recounts the story of how he was attacked by a sounder of starving pigs. The look in his dilated pupils speaks volumes of horrors he has seen.” *** Time Out

“The audience feels fully drawn in as Gwilym Lee is joined by just two other actors: Hywel Morgan as comrade-in-arms Niels and Beatrice Curnew as a brisk captain, a chaplain and a relatively raunchy nurse.” - The Stage