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My Boy Jack
"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.”
When the British Empire entered WWI manly virtue had no greater champion than the unofficial poet laureate, Rudyard Kipling. Using his considerable influence, Kipling secured a commission for his son despite Jack's poor eyesight. Jack did go to war and went missing in action. Like thousands of other families Kipling, his wife Caroline and daughter Elise were left questioning why the war had been fought and above all what became of Jack.
Kipling’s poem If inspired generations to play up and play the game. My Boy Jack is the story behind a later and very different poem. It is a drama brilliantly written by David Haig who acted in Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Thin Blue Line as well as The Thick of It.
Production photographs by Jim Mohan
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Cast
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Rudyard
Kipling
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Andrew De’Ath
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John Kipling
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Patrick
MacDonald
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Carrie
Kipling
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Elizabeth
Hack
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Major Sparks
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Leigh
McDonald
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Colonel
Pottle
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Paul Carding
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Elsie Kipling
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Francesca
Tomlinson
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Guardsman
McHugh
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Pete McAndrew
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Guardsman
Doyle
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Robert
Porteous
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Guardsman
Bowe
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Joe
McLaughlin
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Young John
(Voiceover)
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Daniel Graham
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Young Elsie
(Voiceover)
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Phoebe
Tomlinson
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Mr Frankland
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Leigh
McDonald
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BBC
Newsreader
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Kevin Gibson
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Production
Team
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Director
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Mark Buckley
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Assistant
Directors
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Kristy Clark,
Kevin Gibson
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Stage
Managers
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Eleanor
Pullen, Kay Worswick
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Set Build and
Design
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Michael
Cornish, Sands Dobson, Gavin Mills, Darren Nelson
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Sound Design
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Martin
Collins
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Lighting
Design and Operation
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Jerry Cooper,
Sian Thorpe
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Wardrobe
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Margie Cook,
Linda Girling
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Properties
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Karen
Elliott, Laura Glendinning, Rye Mattick, Hazel Temperley, Kate Wilkins, Ali
Wirwick, Richard Temperley
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Hair
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Wiggy
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Rehearsal
Prompt
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Katie Wilkins
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