{"id":6035,"date":"2017-11-09T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:24:15","slug":"billy-goes-to-war-a-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6035","title":{"rendered":"Billy Goes To War — a Play to End All Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>a play by Harley Marshall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

(Perfect for Professional, College\/University, Community and High School productions) <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

FULL and ONE ACT versions available!
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ARE ALL WARS THIS WEIRD?!<\/p>\n

Billy Bunders is the luckiest or unluckiest boy who ever lived. From his birth, on the 4th of July 1900, in Kansas\u2013\u2013the son of a German immigrant\u2013\u2013Billy survives catastrophic event after catastrophic event: The War to End All Wars; World War II; even the presence of The Korean Conflict, horrifies him; as did the Spanish-American War that haunted his father and affected Billy second-hand. With pointed pathos and barbed politicism, \u201cBilly Goes To War\u201d<\/em> becomes an intensely involving history lesson as seen through Billy\u2019s eyes and lived through Billy\u2019s actions and with his point of view: \u201cWar is …weird!\u201d Dark humor permeates this unsettling play for these darkening times. A small cast makes this a perfect play for any group. Designed as a minimalist play, little scenery is needed. Simple costumes and props, and the actors\u2019 imaginations fill in the graphic visual fabric of the play. He becomes a witness to and unwilling participant in unimaginable horrors. One reviewer described it as a \u201cpolitically charged play.\u201d It may not sound like it, but Billy Goes to War is also funny \u2026 very funny.<\/p>\n

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