plays novelist Philip Gibbs, who became one of the most outstanding British wartime reporters and writers of the day responsible for creating the ‘Lost Generation’ narrative of the 1920's in its condemnation of the futility of war and the incompetence of military leaders. Dane attended The London Centre for Theatre Studies and is due to complete his British Academy of Dramatic Combat Advanced Stage Combat and Fight Directing qualification. His recent theatre credits include Nugget/Young Horseman in Equus and Martin Taylor in Brimstone and Treacle, and has directed Arcadia and Bouncers.

plays Charles Masterman, the Liberal MP appointed Head of the War Propaganda Bureau to lead British artists and authors in recruitment art, utilising the sport and war relationship to urge men to ‘play the game’. Something of a local legend, Keith writes and directs for The Stage Company, producing fringe drama including FACADES and SILVER AGE ADIEU performed at the Network Theatre, Waterloo, the Colour House Theatre, Merton and the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond and the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton. As a regular contributor to the St Mary's Drama Group, Keith’s recent productions include The Chalk Garden and Turbulence on the Thames, celebrating Magna Carta and the River, 1215.

belongs to Q2 players, Hounslow light Opera Company, St Faiths Players and Teddington Theatre Club and is directing Charley's Aunt for Q2 players (www.q2players.org opening 26th to 28th Nov). Having played the Father in Voyage round my father, Modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance, the Duke of Plazatora in Gondoliers and Henry VIII in Rose Without a Thorn, Jon now turns his attention to tabloid editor, Roland Burkit, whose newspaper had been warning about the German threat of war for years. Now vindicated, critics condemn its owner, Lord Northcliffe, as the man next to the Kaiser who ‘had done more than any other living man to bring about the war’.

began his acting career with the Heatham House Youth Theatre where he toured Berlin in the 'Petticoat Rebellion'.  After winning Best Actor as the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver' with the Stage Theatre Company, Twickenham, he turned semi-professional.  Jason plays devil-may care, brash and up for the game, Frank Edwards, who typifies the young Londoner of the time with his dry cockney humour masking a personal tragedy that blunts the fear of death.

plays Captain Dale, the platoon commander who was required to put a hole in any football found taken to the front line. He managed to decommission all except Frank Edward’s. Ben has been an important part of the Barnes Youth Theatre (B Y T) experimental theatre group for 14 years, specialising in improvisation. Involved in over 50 productions, he has been nominated three times for acting awards within Richmond Borough and won Best Young Actor in 2008.

plays seasoned veteran Sergeant Sadler (later Sir Sydney) who had joined the London Irish Rifles in 1909 and saw action in Givenchy before preparing for the Battle of Loos. Tom played Irish fighter pilot, Brendan Finnucane, in last year’s Isleworth Community Play, followed by a part in a short film adaptation of the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Isolde where he played the lead role.

is a stalwart of OHADS, one of the oldest amateur dramatic societies in Richmond Borough. His appearances include Feelgood, Audience with Murder and Dead Funny and as Oskar Rolfe in Judgement at Nurembrg at the Tricycle Theatre in London. More recently Guardsman Bowe in the Teddington Theatre Club production of My Boy Jack, in The Greater Game he plays Patrick MacGill, the Irish journalist, poet and novelist also known as ‘The Navvy Poet’, who volunteered as a stretcher bearer and later wrote openly of the battle of Loos in The Great Push, where he evokes the true calamity of the trenches and the futility of war.

is currently studying at Twickenham Academy where his dramatic training includes BTEC Level 3 Diploma (D*D predicted) GCSE Acting B. His credits include Jimmy Porter (Look Back in Anger); John Hale (The Crucible) and Raymond in Blue Remembered Hills. He follows his appearance in the Dramatic Edge production of The Armed Man with this WW1 100th anniversary performance of The Greater Game as an officer on a train who succumbs to the guile of Philip Gibbs as he makes his way to the front line.

Plays Geoffrey Belton Cobb (aka 'Posh Bloke'), a volunteer rifleman from an entirely different background of that of his comrades.  Going on to write over fifty detective novels, his first published work was 'Stand To Arms', an account of his time with the London Irish Rifles.