... the Ger man Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonoeffer, who was summarily exe cuted by Hitler a few days before the end of the Second World War. To some extent, this play pre empts the biographical drama on Boiihoeffer, who was summarily exe- engaged, creating ...

... theatrical, deals with the problem of a refugee Polish officer (hero of the abortive Warsaw rebellion towards the end of the Second World War) who finds friendship in the bosom of a Northern newspaper editor's family. The young man is a poet with a high moral ...

... what is the real Australian cultural heritage and then compares the fate of the lost community with the horrors of the Second World War. Its handicaps are that it is considerably too long, and packs in too many distractions and side issues. But there is ...

... don't come much funnier than Philip King's riotous farce. It first saw the lights of a theatre in the dying months of the Second World War and was updated in successive productions long after. Wisely, Joan Knight has stuck to the original period with taped ...

... Directed by Stanley Illsley. This play deals with a young Irish priest who has been on the English mission and served in the Second World War; his appointment as curate to an Irish village his diffi culty in fitting into his surround ings, the people and their ...

... of great change the depression had sabotaged farming fortunes, the heavy horse was giving way to mechanisation and the Second World War was just around the comer. It would have been a very grim piece without the constant rippling, jiggling, traditional ...

... perhaps structurally the best of the three. It follows the formula of personal remi niscences of Glasgow city life from the Second World War onwards, interspersed with songs. The secret, as ever, is how it is all done. Paul is a superb performer. She was a splendid ...

... captivating theatre. His work in cracking the Nazis' Enigma code saved thousands of I lives and probably shortened the Second World War. I He was Churchill's favourite boffin, received the OBEfor his I work in deciphering at Bletchley I Park, then in peacetime ...

... that the actual period of time in which these two theatrical luminaries collaborated was a mere six years before the Second World War and in two main shows alone Private Lives and Tonight at 8.30. So, once we have had snippets from these and the Parisian ...

... wings of Noel Coward. The play provided the Master with his longest London run and saw its happy way through most of the Second World War years. Perhaps its view of sudden death and parting of loved ones linked to strong and improbable comedy was what people ...

... Nobby Dimon and Simon Corbie, John Buchan's classic tale of dastardly deeds which plot Britain's downfall before the Second World War had even begun, gets the comic treatment. This is Perthshire's second viewing in recent times of The 39 Steps (Perth ...

... season has opened with The Taming of the Shrew, funny and somewhat realistic in modern dress (Italy at the time of the Second World War liberation), taking on the wonder of love and happy things as dusk comes and new lights shine through the trees, the ...