Walking behind you – your chignon, your tanned forearms, your calves, your white, pleated skirt swaying, just the suggestion of that bottom – into a sunlit pub on Wenlock Edge for gin and orange and a pint; watching Macbeth through inexorable drizzle in a Shropshire market town – ‘It will be rain tonight’. ‘Let it come down’; drying off in another pub, hearing someone recite Housman loudly: ‘When smoke stood up from Ludlow…;’ driving home, your sleeping head on my shoulder, your future already in my hands – nearly two generations ago.
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THE MEMORIAL is a feature length screenplay. Set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (against a background of mutinies and the influenza pandemic), it is a love story, which explores class, religious prejudice and anti-war issues through the eyes of Captain Edward Standish.
Much of the action takes place at Edward’s country seat, an east Midlands village dominated by a colliery, as well as in London where Edward falls in love with an artist, Clara Zeligman. Edward has to choose between Clara and and his fiancée, the Honourable Charlotte Antrobus.
The story also takes us to Flanders where Edward faced the toughest choice of his military career – an event which haunts him throughout the story.
You can download this screenplay as a .pdf
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