'Squires focuses on the aftermath of the shooting of a young Kentish soldier, Bobby, while on patrol in Helmand province. He ostensibly died a hero but, on the day of his funeral, we see his siblings and best friend bitterly arguing about the real Bobby. According to his drug-dealer brother Danny, he was a total wimp who, in civilian life, wouldn't even defend his sister Emily; and Emily herself, although dressed to the nines to pay a TV tribute to Bobby, admits she hasn't the vaguest idea why he died or what he was fighting for. Interwoven with this bilious episode are three scenes, set a few months later, between Bobby's 16-year-old cousin Charlie, and her friend Sammy, suggesting that, if the concept of heroism survives, it is on the personal rather than the public level.' - The stage
The political and time context doesn't appeal to me and I had doubts in the first place to this monologue therefore I've decided not to do it.
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