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... Schweyk In the Second World War MANCHESTER WITH AUDIENCES of more than 80 per cent capacity for four previous productions of work by Brecht, Manchester's Contact Theatre Company obviously had no qualms about adding a fifth to their list. This time it ...
... 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 ...
... Peace In Our Time Richmond This Noel Coward play is a reminder, 50 years after the Second World War, of what might have happened had the Germans occupied B'tain. Coward wrote for a cast of 37, creating representatives from every class and section of the ...
... Only by Yemi Ajibade is the tale of three pick-pockets operating in a small market town near Lagos at the height of the Second World War mastermind Baba Osa (Christopher Asante), apprentice Mugun Yaro (Chris Tummings) and Josiah (T-Bone Wilson), recently ...
... family ties. Part two has Greek resis tance fighters deciding what to do with a Greek informer, in the final days of the Second World War. The theme of revenge, also cen tral to both stories, finds its roots in Freud's 'Electra complex'. Etectra's negative ...
... the Parade by John MurrelLa sensitive, intelligent, patently honest showing of a group of women in Calgary during the Second world War. The women, representative in many ways of thousands in similar situa tions. carry on with their lives as best they may ...
... Volga Boat Song and the National Anthem among others. Based on a true story of Pavel Navrotsky, a Russian deserter in the Second World War who hid for 4 1 years in a pigsty, Fugard's play parallels aspects of his personal history he has suggested that he ...
... than this one could not guarantee satisfying drama. The play opens with the death of a piccolo-playing soldier in the Second World War and then leaps into the middle of the next century by which time the modest musical instrument has become a talis man ...
... 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 ...
... anti-communism in the fifties. But what place did a flag- waving caped superhero have in the swinging sixties, and why didn't Second World War plots recycle comfortably in Vietnam? This thought-provoking con tent is carried by a vehicle of fast-moving, frequently ...
... The Lady Goes to War Worthing Despite all efforts to 'do her bit for King and country' at the out break of the Second World War. the middle aged writer and moth er of two ends up as an assistant in a services canteen in the middle of London. This is the ...
... Age Exchange Theatre uses extracts from interviews with older London residents to help build up an impression of the Second World War from the point of view of the working woman. It is a highly successful ploy. For not only does it lend authenticity to ...