... middle-class respectability is stunningly presented in Stephen Daldry's National Theatre production at the Yvonne Amaud. Second World War air-raid sirens and exploding bombs cre ate suspense for the appearance of the mysterious Inspector Goole on the cobbled ...

... battle for Monte Cassino, a particularly bloody, bitter and ill-managed sticking-point in the Italian campaign in the Second World War. ruui i^iigiiaii a\ iu uncrc iiiuiciii infantrymen form the remnants of a dance band which played in pre-war days at ...

... concerns a number of loutisn itinerant fruit pickers work ing temporarily on a Midlands fruit farm sometime after the Second World War. Most of them are loud, argu mentative and illiterate. They have monumental prejudices, but no opinions. They are incapable ...

... and dysfunction has been revived for the Man in the Moon's Nationalism season, marking 50 years since the end of the Second World War. The play begins with a perfect nuclear family two well scrubbed children, stay-at-home wife and hubby coming home from ...

... neous savagery. Dennis Potter's morality tale has seven children all played by adults gathered in a wood dur ing the Second World War. Four are boisterous, hyperactive boys. Steve Nicholson is bullying Peter, Ken Bradshaw fair John, Roger Moriidge stuttering ...

... the West to catch a fleeting insight into the everyday lives of a small community in the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War. Although the story centres around one family, from the moment the assembled cast burst on to the bare proscenium stage ...

... he has chosen Ashley Martin Davis to visualise his perception of the play set in a time during the forties when the Second World War was raging. Hovering over this production in the round, is a jagged metallic ceiling covering a fragmented base, upon ...

... . young actress, Rose, whom he sees on stage in Montpellier at the beginning of her career just after the end of the Second World War. Rose's relationship with Alex is complicated by the fact that she also loves the older George who. in addition to the ...

... Evacuees 1939 YVECS ONE does not need the gift of prophecy to forecast that we are all going to be awash with Second World War nostalgia for the next six years. However, there's a generation and half around for whom the events of 1939-45 are as historical ...

... 'EXAMPLE' ONE of the most notorious criminal cases tried in England since the end of the second world war was the Craig and Bentley case. In 1952, the country was lifting itself out of wartime austerity with the New Look on one hand, the Teddy Boy on ...

... s. For instance, after her mother and father married they did not have children for ten years. Instead, they had the Second World War. More brutally, she tells us that when she became ill, her moth er's tongue was so swollen that it looked as if she had ...

... I Get Along Without You SHAW THE SECOND World War is obviously an emotive subject and therefore a play about it is more than likely to be powerful and moving. The NYT production of I Get Along Without You is no exception and has some quite effective ...