My Boy Jack
By David Haig Directed
About the Show
By David Haig Directed by Caryl Rapps “Don’t tell me he was lucky! He wasn’t lucky, or…or brave, or happy! Jack was eighteen years and six weeks old! He died in the rain, he couldn’t see a thing, he was alone! You can’t persuade me that there’s any glory in that!” So says Carrie Kipling, Rudyard Kipling’s wife and mother of Jack (John) Kipling. My Boy Jack is a true story and tells of a nation at war offering an intimate portrait of one family’s complex and divided experiences in it. The author Rudyard Kipling, famous for the Jungle Book, uses his considerable influence, being on a War Office propaganda think tank, to get his nearly 18 year old son Jack admitted for military service during the First World War.
Photo Gallery
My Boy Jack - cast
Rudyard Kipling's study
My Boy Jack - backstage view of study
The trench
the trench: here's what the audience didn't see
My Boy Jack: backstage view of the soldiers in the trench
building the trench
rigging
in rehearsal
My Boy Jack - in rehearsal
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My Boy Jack
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