{"product_id":"days-of-significance-9780713683288","title":"Days of Significance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWritten in response to \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado About Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e and performed by Dominic Cooke''s \u003ci\u003ePericles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter''s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e Company, Roy Williams'' \u003ci\u003eDays of Significance\u003c\/i\u003e is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends to binge drink the night before they leave for active service. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRoy Williams looks at how the naive and malformed moral codes of these young men have catastrophic reverberations for the West''s moral authority.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Williams has a remarkable talent for engineering unforced, truthful-seeming collisions between tragic emotion and irrelevant or blithely disreputable comedy' Independent - Paul Taylor  'Days of Significance is a frankly terrifying and utterly compelling examination of the morality of sending young men to fight a war when they are ill-equipped to do so in every way' Guardian - Michael Billington  'Brace yourself: this is tough, important stuff, alarmingly well done' Mail on Sunday - Georgina Brown  'Williams, while he does not exonerate the behaviour of the soldiers, draws an immensely compassionate portrait of people propelled into hell' Financial Times - Sarah Hemming  'Here is a state-of-the-nation play in which Williams leaves his comfort zone of writing about the black community and stretches himself imaginatively with terrific results' Tribune - Aleks Sierz","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515765723479,"sku":"9780713683288","price":13.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780713683288.jpg?v=1745427857","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/days-of-significance-9780713683288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}