This gentle and amusing play is set in a retirement home for veterans of the First World War. The residents boast about the past, remembering battles and loves won and lost, and together face old age with a mixture of defiance and acceptance. Michael Twomey plays the aristocratic Gustave, Ted O'Regan contrasts as the plain speaking foot-soldier Henri and Ber Power plays the dreamy Philippe who might have been a great lover, or even a concert pianist. The trio hatch a plan to escape from the petty restrictions of the home, planning their route with half remembered military tactics. The world beyond seems to beckon them with colour, adventure and the vain chance of recapturing their youth. The human imagination knows no bounds of place or time.

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