... resist the cliche that the Queen's Theatre starts its season with a bang in Matt Devitt's production of Lionel Bart's Second World War musical. Well, three monster bangs actually, which shake those of us of a nervous disposition. The latest Cut to the ...

... briefly shaken by the traitors, he never loses control, and even the Act V wooing scene is played with amused confidence. A Second World War setting helps put the play in a reality, and Shakespeare's rhetorical flourishes are modulated skilfully and sensitively ...

... At a literal level it is about the impact of an epidemic breaking out in a French city. Written during and after the Second World War, it can also be viewed as a metaphor for the Nazi occupation. Guest director John Retallack, who adapted the script with ...

... 'total theatre', with the repeated detail of the title being the familiar brutality of conflict, here grounded in the Second World War, but clearly intended to suggest the universal. The narrative is provided by a letter in voiceover, written by a mother ...

... Treehouses Dublin Staged at the Peacock, Elizabeth Kuti's first full-length play takes us to Middle Europe during the Second World War and the results of a decision made those 50-something years ago. Magda, now in her seventies, sits in a residential home ...

... New End The Last Sortie During the Second World War, the crew of an American bomber prepare for action. As required by the laws of cliche, they are a balanced mix of stereotypes: an Italian, a Pole, a New York City Jew and a college boy. Forty years later ...

... over the veracity of de Bemieres' tale of Italian and German occu pation of the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, this picaresque telling transports its audience. Much of the success of the production is down to its simplicity. It ...

... Grand is sensitively directed by Jonathan Church, documenting Anne Frank's last years in hiding from the Nazis during the Second World War. Anne Bedi portrays Frank as a sparky and spirited teenager in what is a very accomplished performance, although her ...

... directed by Pawal Szkotak, is set in the glorious ruins of Coventry Cathedral which was destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War. It is a collaborative project between the awardwinning Polish company Teatr Biuro Podrozy and the Belgrade Theatre which ...

... assassins. War is what countries do when they get bored. Roy Smiles' fractured comedy, concerning a trauma- tised American Second World War veteran, forced in 1962 to confront his past by the impending doom of the Cuban missile crisis nails its colours to ...

... aspects of being Irish. In this play, he examines a period of time not often referred to by many of his countrymen, the Second World War, during which Ireland remained neutral. This fact is central to the play. The kitchen of the title harbours servicemen ...

... Nobby Dimon and Simon Corbie, John Buchan's classic tale of dastardly deeds which plot Britain's downfall before the Second World War had even begun, gets the comic treatment. This is Perthshire's second viewing in recent times of The 39 Steps (Perth ...