Christopher fry poem a sleep of prisoners
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A Sleep of Prisoners
Play by Christopher Fry
A Sleep of Prisoners is a verse play by Christopher Fry.[1] It concerns four English prisoners of war locked up in a church overnight, and the Old Testament style dreams they have springing from an argument between them.[2]
Plot
[edit]Four English soldiers are trapped in a bombed out Cathedral. Private King attempts to strangle Private Able. Separated by Corporal Adams and Private Meadows they bed down for the night. The remainder of the play reveals the dreams of each soldier and their attitude to life and death.
Background
[edit]Commissioned as part of the Festival of Britain, the anti-war drama, directed by Michael Macowan, opened at St. Thomas' church in Regent Street, London, in May [3][4] It then toured churches around Britain with its cast of Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott, Hugh Pryse and Leonard White.[5] It was also performed in churches in America later the same year.[6]
Critical reception
[edit]T.C. Worsley wrote "Each of the dreams is dramatically conceived and touched off with that sharp sense of the comic incongruity of things which is Mr Fry's personal approach to life and words."[1]
TV adaptation
[edit]The play was broadca
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See you soon!
Love & some Light
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