This import from the National Theatre in London, at the Beaumont Theatre in LincolnCenter, is more an experience than a play, and as such it’s a hum-dinger.  As a play it is less than that, for stripped of its trappings, which are tremendous, it’s more or less “Lassie Come Home” minus dog, plus horse.  I don’t mean to belittle it, for it’s a masterful piece of theatre and even at close to 3 hours in length it holds its audiences and gives them everything in the book — laughter, tears, thrills and a glimpse of a little known aspect of warfare as it was played out in the “war to end all wars”, World War I. [Read more...]