Benediction

A decorated British soldier in the First World War, Siegfried Sassoon achieved renown as a poet via impassioned anti-war verses that landed him in a military psychiatric hospital; later, he emerged to live with unusual openness as a gay man amid the Bright Young Things of 1920s London, before retreating into heterosexual marriage and fatherhood, and converting late in life to Catholicism. “Benediction” spans all these conflicting stages as a restless dialogue between stages of youth and old age as it explores Sassoon’s life. Stars Jack Lowden, Peter Cupaldi, Simon Russell Beale.