... having children played by fully-grown adults, convincingly going through their childhood ritu als. The period is the Second World War and it is strongly in the minds of these rural children as they pretend to be fighter pilots and commandos, except for ...

... One was Alun Lewis' All Day it Has Rained, a poem which is arguably the finest description of the troops' view of the Second World War. The other was Chamberlain's Declaration of War broadcast. As a piece of theatre the second half was better performed ...

... statement, a powerful celebration of working class life. Now that it has been overtaken and cheapened by the tide of Second World War nostalgia and the hype of the Heritage Industry, its impact is lessened. However, C P Taylor has said: The universal ...

... peronality and very difficult to get on with socially, Turing was responsible for cracking the German enigma code during the Second World war and for the theoretical, mathematical ground worn which led to the manufacture of the modern computer. Small wonder ...

... brings out all these elements in a cleverly-crafted narra tive that switches between Lowry aged 52 at the start of the Second World War to his death at 89. His relationship with his parents a stiff and starchy father who did not once encourage him but plainly ...

... playwright. But Ward was confident that Novel lo's longest-running hit, which opened just a fortnight before the end of the Second World War, would still appeal, and that today's audience wouldn't find it all too sentimental. Ward takes the non-singing role ...

... Gladys, Violet and Dolly (choreography by Julie Vickers) delighted in capturing the awfulness of civilian life during the Second World War. But mainly that awfulness was in the dress, and the line of greyed corsets and other indescribable items strung across ...

... reflection on the nature of art in a sumptuous 1 8th century setting, had its first performance in Munich mid-way through the Second World War. Hardly the sort of thing to gat the pulses of the leaders of the Third Reich racing, one would have thought cerebral ...

... dur- I ing the Spanish Civil War. We see him serving with a cloak-and-dag ger British organisation in Singa pore in the Second World War. We meet here a dedicated and fanatical Soviet woman agent who persuades Templeton (reasonably to hand to TEMPLETON Play ...

... serious man, a Catholic, who, like many other writers of the period, was troubled about the events which led up to the Second World War. The main difficulty was that Barry was a popular Broadway playwright who wanted to write plays of meaning and depth ...

... one of the most gifted actors of his generation, are Brendan Bracken and William Joyce, universally known during the Second World War as Lord Haw-Haw. Superficially the two men could scarcely have been more different. Bracken was a gilded socialite, a ...

... the subject of illegitimacy but tg a full-flavoured bedroom farce. Or Nights of Blackness, which reminds us that the Second World War, with its characteristic slogans and songs, is passing into history. Or Knit Yourself a Lost Week-end, which suggests ...