... 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 ...

... transfer from the cargo- J ship, which is wallowing about in Pacific equatorial waters during the closing stages of the second world war. The cargo officer wants to become a combatant officer. But the captain refuses to send forward his subordinate's repeated ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... centenarian without any loss of mental powers! However that may be. the collaborators have been labouring at Dieppe. Then the Second World War comes and the younger man escapes to Newhavcn. But and here the title is presumably explained he betrays his friend. ...

... 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 the play as drama. The scene is a barrack hut in a stalag in Germany, and the period is the closing winter of the Second World War. There is a German spy at loose in the camp and the wrong man is suspected. Of coursc, the real traitor is the least ...

... Guard Tom Colmer Directed by John Fernald The Devil is or was Hitler, and his General Harras. a Luftwaffe chief of the Second World War. Harras is a swashbuckling veteran, a great lover of wine and women, a great lover of service songs and a great hater ...

... the subject of illegitimacy but tg a full-flavoured bedroom farce. Or Nights of Blackness, which reminds us that the Second World War, with its characteristic slogans and songs, is passing into history. Or Knit Yourself a Lost Week-end, which suggests ...

... dur- I ing the Spanish Civil War. We see him serving with a cloak-and-dag ger British organisation in Singa pore in the Second World War. We meet here a dedicated and fanatical Soviet woman agent who persuades Templeton (reasonably to hand to TEMPLETON Play ...

... victims at the time. In A Taste of Freedom, at the Hovenden Theatre Club, a play set in suburbia immediately after the second world war, Rolanda Ronald has brought to our recollection sort*? of the psychological difficulties of readjustment for people whose ...

... completely relaxed onstage. The second half, dealing with Napoleon's invasion of Russia, is musically less interesting, with Second World War pa triotism making itself felt a lit tle too obviously at times. Colin Graham's production, however, maintains the narrative ...