... from their charming choral work. The action takes place in a remote rural village in Japan in the final months of the Second World War, as children evacuated from bombed cities encounter the very dif ferent life of the country children. As the two groups ...

... vary ing styles, but this is not one of her best. There are few present-day playgoers who wish to be reminded of the Second World War, nor do they like to hear politics argued in a theatre. The slight story here is mainly concerned with a suburban family ...

... a topical play, and a veiled threat in the programme notes that the action takes place in London, Irom the eve of the second world war to the reeognl- i. .u of I-r..'-'i i>. the British en. ''SS. lie family drama which tells the story of the Goothartz ...

... Corporal Bluebird Barnet Even if Lynne and Richard Riley's musical was opened out into something of a Second World War spectacular instead of the workshop production seen at the Old Bull Arts Centre, then I would not give a lot for its chances, even less ...

... classic 1948 film with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, but it was written for Broadway by Maxwell Anderson before the Second World War and this production, by Bristol group Show of Strength at the Quakers Friars, is its British stage premiere. This ...

... directed by Pawal Szkotak, is set in the glorious ruins of Coventry Cathedral which was destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War. It is a collaborative project between the awardwinning Polish company Teatr Biuro Podrozy and the Belgrade Theatre which ...

... butchery plays a significant part in the plot of this new play at the Northcott Theatre. We are on the Home Front in the Second World War, when rations were down to scrapings. The butchers are rearing an illegal pig and the inhabitants of a small Cornish ...

... by Sarah Palinkov who is of Czech/Polish ori gin to be staged in Britain. Palinkov, who was born in Warsaw before the second world war, uses the love/hate relationship between captive and cap tor to illuminate the struggle between good and evil within ...

... Fenella Fielding makes an enchanting, graceful Maria. We meet her in the last year of the poet's life at the end of the Second World War, in her early fifties and still elegantly feminine. But she is dying of cancer in a bleak English hospital, disgusted ...

... Wilfred Owen. For those still with VE Day hang overs, this is an urgent reminder of the universality of suffering in the Second World War. Corporal Beckman, returning cropped and crippled from a Siberian POW camp, finds his wife sleeping with a stranger and ...

... result of a Gulf War, said MacDonald. You only have to look at the num ber of theatres which were open dur ing the Second World War. There was probably more shows running in the West End than ther are now. But by concern primarily is for a peaceful ...

... the effects of war on ordinary people--the pressures it puts them under and the opportunities it opens up for them. The Second World War itself is mere ly a backdrop against which the alliances and emotional problems of one working class Geordie family unfold ...