Stephen MacDonald was a British actor, dramatist, novelist and director. He was brought up and educated in Birmingham, where he trained as an actor, and subsequently worked extensively in Scotland as a theatre director. He began his directorial career at Leicester Phoenix Theatre and was later instrumental in reviving the fortunes of Dundee Repertory Theatre after which he was appointed the Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 1976.His other plays include All Ayre & Fire, Billy Budd, Jungle Book (all with the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh Company) as well as an adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya which toured the UK in 1990.Stephen MacDonald died in 2009.
Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori, facetiously penned British poet Wilfred Owen, who was soon to die in the Great War. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. This moving play is about the poetic life and the inter relationship between two of the finest Great War poets.
