... 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 ...

... Soviet fighter pilot-- in one of the all-female fighter squadrons which helped fight the battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War. It is only a pity that having unearthed such an inter esting subject, Amott fails to realise its dramatic potential ...

... for the nation's commem orative war speeches of 1995 in an old broadcasting studio. Why? Because in the years after the Second World War, German politi cians and intellectuals had failed to accept their country's position as perpetrator of the conflict, ...

... this would be any more than a worthy attempt to show children what life was like in the Welsh countryside during the Second World War. It proved to be a lot more than that. Tim Baker, who also directs, has fashioned a funny, touching 7Sminute play from ...

... Voices from Theresienstadt New End The incarceration of Jews during the Second World War is unlikely inspiration for an evening of song and dance but that is exactly what you get from Norwegian director Ellen Foyn Bruun and actress Bente Kahan. Through ...

... battle between Wilhelm Furtwangler. the great German conductor, alleged to have co-operated with the Nazis during the Second World War. and tne American officer charged with finding enough evidence to haul him before a tribunal has a potent force. Harwood ...

... repertoire of the National Theatre for five years, and it is easy to see why. The play is founded on an incident in the Second World War, when a punc tured weather balloon descended on a small village and was captured by peasants. Their original idea is ...

... Little Wind and Song of the Moldau for their beautiful melodies, although The Nazi Soldier's Wife (from Schweyk in the Second World War) was extremely affecting, as the song's narrator reflected on the presents her own soldier/husband has sent back, until ...

... Letters from Stalingrad Bridewell Six years of war sent 46 million to their deaths--the great unfinished business of the Second World War is human pain, said Martin Gilbert in his one volume history. As the callous aggressors German suffering was put out ...