Director Adam Barnard rescued Ted Hughes’s lyrical translation of Georges Schehadé’s anti-war play from the Atlanta University archive in which Hughes’s papers are kept. The unheroic hero is Vasco (Jonathan Broadbent), a cowardly barber and the town’s only man of fighting age to have avoided going to war. Barnard’s production could do with a little buffing up in places, but the evening recalls a fairy-tale version of Oh What A Lovely War. Military types are enjoyably lampooned and the absurdity of grown men fighting for glory is rather beautifully exposed. Recommended.