... play Speak for England, Arthur the words of an MP to his party leader in the House of Commons at the outbreak of the Second World War. Spanning the years between the wars, with the head, excel lently played by Peter Laird, obsessed with calling the school ...

... play of the neglected and brilliant playwright Odon von Horvath, whose life was so bizzarely cut short just prior to the Second World War, while fleeing the Nazis in Paris, on his way to America. It is a timeless tale of unemployment leading to despair ...

... Edinburgh Marabi was both the music and the culture of the black slumyards of South Africa in the years preceding the Second World War. A defiant blend of African rhythms with American jazz, it was the music of the shabaens and is considered by some to ...

... arrival of an impressive new talent. The time and place is Tanganyika, formerly German East Africa, on the eve of the Second World War. British planters have routinely shunned their German neighbours at the club. Now officialdom (in the per son of Arthur ...

... Girlfriends, his latest work, which has been directed by John Retallack, the Coliseum's artistic director. Set during the Second World War, the girlfriends of the title are a set of newly recruited WAAFs who, full of chauvinism, enlist to help the war effort ...

... qualities of a delicate water- colour. The background to the play is not so delicate however. We are nearing the end of the Second World War on the border of Northern Ireland and the Free State where Ailish once went to school and which has now become a scene ...

... the play is intended to offer a welcome dis traction from all the bombing and subsequent stress experienced during the Second World War. Its premiere was in 1943 and it has since notched up more than 3,000 performances. Channel Theatre Company's production ...

... four decades to the first British production of The Crucible, flourishes still with this powerful revival of his great Second World War morality play. All My Sons, Miller's first commercial success, has not been seen in this country for ten years, but it ...

... Singapore in January 1942, has weath ered well and will continue to do so. For the work is only incidentally about the Second World War. The action could be taking place somewhere in the South American jungle today. Characterisation and character are the ...

... Saturated by seething jungle corpses and screaming maimed children, it's hard to be moved by a gentile, nostalgic look at Second World War life, undertaken by the Argonaut Theatre Company in The Great Dieppe Raiding I'arry. Cast member Kevin MacDonogh compiled ...

... dogged urgency, hinting at, and yet containing its enormity to the end. The setting is in France in the aftermath of the Second World War, just as Philippe (Michael Watson), the fighter and then prisoner is due to be released to his wife Michele (Sarah Galey) ...

... a few years before the trauma of the French Revolution. This time it foreshadows the trauma of the 20th Century, the Second World War. But there is no sensibility of doom in this production, it skips along in flowing costume. Figaro, played by Andrew ...