Morpurgo's (Kensuke's Kingdom) suspenseful, ultimately tragic novel opens as 18-year-old Tommo Peaceful stays up all night "to try to remember everything." The author plants clues as to the narrator's ...

When author Michael Morpurgo learned about the British Army’s practice of executing its own soldiers during the First World War, it spurred him to write his 2003 award-winning novel “Private Peaceful.

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Private Peaceful is a first hand account of a WW1 soldier, based on the novel by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo. This is essentially a one man show with Andy Daniels as Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful.

Many of the elements that worked for Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" are present and correct in WWI drama "Private Peaceful," which, like "Horse," was adapted from a Michael Morpurgo novel. Following ...

Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of World War One, the show relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his ...

A low-level continual hum, cut through with the occasional bass note, fills the Nottingham Playhouse auditorium alongside the view of a dark, raked stage, a few scarred trees and the barest glimmer of ...