Alan Wilkinson

BWW Review: THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, Tower Theatre

After staging three other plays by Martin McDonagh, Tower Theatre are now tackling the playwright's phenomenal first play, and start of the first of two trilogies, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. After premiering in Galway in 1996 it went on to have multiple transfers in London, a stint on Broadway, and to win a multitude of accolades.

The Lutterworth Press to Release THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Alan Wilkinson

Reprinted with a new preface to mark the centenary of the Great War, Alan Wilkinson's monumental work returns! The myth that the war was fought by 'lions led by donkeys' powerfully endures – it turns heroes into victims. Alan Wilkinson demonstrates the sheer horror, moral ambiguity, and the interaction between religion, the church and war with a scholarly, and yet poetic, hand.