Battle of Will

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The Boss waits for the boy whose parents he killed, in order to make him his son. The Boy pulls the trigger and misses. Still, this lost bullet flies through the play with devastating consequences, under the jaded eyes of two gravediggers and two bodyguards. Using an expertly-crafted plot worthy of "the Goodfellas", Gaude carries out a meticulous study of human relationships and of the power of contract and rhetoric. A brilliant first play. Battle of Will is part of the National Theatre's Channels project, a series of contemporary French plays read in translation at the Lyttleton in June 2002.

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David Greig's plays include A Savage Reminiscence and And the Opera House Remained Unbuilt (Edinburgh Festival), Petra's Explanation (Traverse, Edinburgh), Stalinland (Edinburgh Festival - Fringe First, and Glasgow Citizens') and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, Tron Glasgow and tour). TV: Nightlife (winner BBC Double Exposure comptition. Radio: Copper Sulphate, The Commuter.