Myself and my partner have now watched all of the online monologues so far uploaded onto YouTube by Rohan Candappa (The Lockdown Theatre Company).
One of the more serious and sobering pieces on offer is this, Hill 235, read by Josh Harper. When reading the title I immediately thought it would be about a battle in Flanders during the First World War. I was only partly right. Instead this is about another battle, fought in another war, a war that most Britsh people are unaware that we were even a part of. The dividing of North and South Korea and the battles that were fought prior to this political demarkation, were, even to my own understanding, between the Koreans and the USA; I had no idea at all that the UK was even remotely involved in this debacle. How wrong can you be?
Harper is dead. He died in the battle of Hill 235, and in a seemingly historically accurate recounting, we learn all about the UK's involvment and how this particular battle happened and ended. It is realistically and sympathetically read by Harper, although he does need to be a little careful as at times a combination between the speed of his delivery and his local West Country accent make comprehensibility and clarity difficult.
A moving story with an even more moving conclusion in which we learn that the city council from that area of Korea where the battle took place, as a gesture of friendship and remembrance, recently sent 1000 sets of PPE for the key workers of Gloucestershire.
Reviewer - Chris Benchley
on - 22/8/20
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