Romans in Britain

<p>First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980 having been commissioned by Peter Hall <i>The Romans in Britain</i> contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of the late twentieth century. <p/>As these scenes bleed into one another Brenton suggests what it might have been like for these people to meet. Three Roman soldiers sexually assault a young druid priest. A lone wounded Saxon soldier stumbles into a field a nightmare made real. An army intelligence officer begins to lose his mind in the Irish fields. Brenton's sinewy vernaculars summon a lost history of cultural collision and oppression of fear and sorrow. <p/>This edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds and a foreword by director Sam West.</p>