... an ARP hat and Hitler moustache. Nor did the numer ous incongruities matter too much for example, an RAF man from the Second World War singing a First World War army song. The nostalgia was enough, and this is very much the material base for Gunn's stand-up ...

... Britain and the USA, we get an inevitable mix of public triumphs and private tragedies, notably her son's death in the Second World War. Along the way we also hear several of her signature songs, most of them by Noel Coward. Sandra Sheperdson does not resemble ...

... a lot of people know that Vauncez is Yid dish for whiskers a name he adopted when he came into journalism after the Second World War. Before that he had a distinguished literary career as a novelist and playwright, and his pre-war novels of Jewish East ...

... Gladys is sitting by the wireless and thinking about the decade in which she got married. There were hunger marches, the Second World War began and the King abdicated. Sweet though it is, Sandy Walsh does not bring anything to it that she could not bring ...

... Spa Theatre and credit is due to Tony Peers and Jon Conway for a polished production which combines the humour of the Second World War and its hit songs with moving tributes. The muRMalented Peers is as much at home playing Robb WHton as he is portraytng ...

... town family. Tom Hickey plays the refugee Jewish accountant who is courting her against all odds towards the end of the Second World War. He turns her family's bigotry into a joke and his horrific European family history into a tragic, depersonalised anecdote ...

... chosen an eerily topical subject matter for their play-the shattered remains of postwar middle F.urope. This is post- Second World War, though, and the scene is Czechoslovakia rather than Yugoslavia, but the resonances rrauin. David Greig's two-hander ...

... several which has seized upon the opportunity to mount a production celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. interestingly, it nas concen trated on the happier aspects of the anniversary, such as the end of hostilities and the ...

... the heartbreaking This is to Let You Know. There was an exasperated Open Letter to a Mayor, chilling memories of the Second World War via the words of Lie in the Dark and Listen, and much more. One line from a Coward song kept coming to mind at the end ...

... EAST Opened June 15 IT IS noticeable that the current river-spate of interest in the events, real or fictional, of the Second World War tends to miss out on the generation of adults who actually experienced its traumas--the audience by and large (with the ...

... some dig ital dexterity with cup and ball and note in wallet routine. Bridget Robinson took us down memory lane with a Second World War medley and as Burlington Bertie. Yorkshire lass Miss Lynn Marie works some northern charm and does a very credible tribute ...

... Wizard of Oz sequence, with Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow, is good fun. Scenes from Cats, Minstrels and the Second World War will grow. Six performers who fill the stage, singing and moving are full of vivacity. David Massey is partic ularly ...