BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR
Written, Composed and Directed by John Gray with Eric Peterson
Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes.
Bishop's singular wartime career forms the subject of a one-man show starring Canadian Actor Eric Peterson at off-Broadway's Theater De Lys. "One-man show" is scarcely precise, for Peterson plays 16 characters in addition to Bishop. He is immeasurably...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
