... This Happy Breed Man in the Moon This 1939 play is Noel Coward in his sentimental/patriotic mode, a branch of his canon that was very effective in its time and place but, inevitably, has dated badly. His mission, on the eve of war. was to celebrate the ...

... The Family Reunion The Pit Adrian Noble's production of TS Eliot's rarely performed play, first staged in 1939, serves as a reminder of the highs and lows of the trend for verse which gripped British drama in the middle of the 20th century. Set in the ...

... ENO prefaces an unquestioned masterpiece, Dallapiccolas The Prisoner (1944-8), derived from a villiers de I'lsle-Adam story (1939) about a rabbi tortured by the Inquisition, with two engaging appetisers. Neil Armfield directs mezzo Susan Parry and three ...

... recital in 1919, formed her dance group in 1923, toured throughout Europe, including the London Coliseum in 1929, left Austria in 1939 and spent the rest of her life in Australia, though she toured to South Africa and India. Bodenweiser's techniques and methods ...