Hugh Salmon is a British advertising executive and playwright, who wrote the play Into Battle . [1]
Hugh Salmon is a British advertising executive and playwright, who wrote the play Into Battle . [1]
As the creator of SFX Cassette Magazine, the music magazine on audio cassette launched in 1982, Salmon pursued a career in advertising, media and marketing. He is the son of Gerald Mordaunt Broome Salmon and the brother of rugby player, Jamie Salmon. He later became managing director of CM:Lintas in London, and was in a five-year legal dispute to clear his name following accusations by the agency, which were eventually dropped by Lintas. [2] The case was closed when Salmon was awarded significant damages and Lintas made a formal apology. [3] [4]
His stage play Into Battle received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021. [5] [6] [7]
The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War. [5] Among its cast of characters are Lady Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough, war poets, Julian Grenfell and Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and England rugby captain, Ronald Poulton.