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PARISH CHURCH, BURFORD
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on June 22nd, 2009
Hear them, silent on the leads,
watching their comrades,
the ensign, the corporal and the private
shot by firing squad
amongst the elms in the graveyard below.
Under the leaves in the summer,
Cromwell’s New Model Army
was practising democracy,
selecting all ranks for exemplary death -
the only leveller.
THE MEMORIAL by David Selzer © 2008
Posted by David Selzer in Screenplays on April 14th, 2009
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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