Mugsborough 1917
In “Mugsborough 1917” the residents of Mugsborough have wildly differing views of the barbaric Great War. The politically aware FRANKIE OWEN is anti war, forecasting the deaths of many naive young men swept up in the jingoism of the press and mood of the ill informed. He campaigns against mobilisation and for peaceful solutions but is condemned as a traitor by many of his peers.
CHARLIE LINDEN, his close friend, is determined to avoid the draft and make himself a career at Rushton’s factory. Can they both avoid being sent to the Western Front? Fate gives CHARLIE a hand when he sees something he wasn’t supposed to.
Meanwhile poor BERT has come back from Flanders terribly injured and cannot find work and the young ELIZABETH is still unaware that she is RUTH’S child, the product of a rape.
Cast
Johnny Vegas – Easton
Paul Whitehouse – Old Misery/Hunter
Shirley Henderson – Ruth
Raquel Cassidy – Nora
Iain McKee – Frankie
Des O’Malley – Bert White
Tony Pitts – Bundy
Tom Goodman-Hill – Barrington
Carl Rice – Charlie Linden
Nicola Stephenson – Elsie
Rupert Degas – Sweater
Kevin Eldon – Slyme
Arthur Smith – Crass
Bill Bailey – Rushton
Yasmin Gerrard – Young Elizabeth
Jody Latham – Freddie
Joanna Neary – Older Elizabeth
Anne Waggott – Mrs Meadows
Directed by Dirk Maggs.
