... sewed the costumes, arranged props and lighting, but improvised and rehearsed two other plays Brecht's Schweyk In The Second World War (in English) and An- ouilh's Antigone (in Welsh). They toured two of them the Brecht to Builth Wells, the Anouilh ...

... 1967. Charles Wood's Dingo appeared to give us all a fresh insight into the mind of the average serviceman during the second world war, grisly perhaps but trimly valid. That Oh What a Lovely War really said it all four years earlier, albeit in context ...

... current tidal wave of books, articles, television series and cinema films all cashing in on nostalgia for Britain in the Second World War, it seems thin. One might therefore find a number of ironies in the premiere of a play based on a Battle of Britain ...

... compelling drama centres around a family torn apart by a court case, resulting from the deaths of 2 1 air pilots during the Second World War after defective engines were deliberately installed in aircraft. For more than three years the family has lived in the ...

... production comes complete with the original prologue, in which two communes, in the Soviet Union of immediately after the Second World War, rationally debate whether a piece ot land, traditionally usea ior goat farming, would be better employed in fruit ...

... which begets under standing. The action spans something like ten years, from the early thirties to the beginning of the Second World War. In a seaside camp, unemployed miners are living for a few artificial days away from reality except, of course, that ...

... hospital pyjamas, spelling out barbarity with reason. Though this is a work of fiction the details are factual. During the Second World War the Germans left seven Russian officers sealed up in a hilltop monastery, naked, in one room, below ground in southern ...

... Breaking The Code BASINGSTOKE ALAN Turing might so easily have been a Second World War national hero. Instead, as Hugh Whitemore's play makes out, he was a marginal figure, lonely and rather pathetic, whose withered social manner concealed both the flower ...

... World THE Old World of Alexei Arbu- zov's play at the Eblana Theatre is that of Russia from the revolution through the Second World War. It's viewed not in a political nor historical context but through the personal reminiscences of an elderly doctor and ...

... chorus-line choreography mat tered as much as who was top of the bill. The instinctive focus of their nostalgia is on the Second World War and beyond, not the Boer and not the First, and most of the music they want to remember today comes from the fifties ...

... Too unaware of dangers of self-parody by Simon Trussler PLAYS about the Second World War are more often parodied than produced in this disillusioned decade. Indeed, ever since Beyond the Fringe first dared to send up the cherished cliches of countless ...

... made as incomprehensible as possible. Thus it was with John Grillo's 1939 set in the year which saw the start of the second world war and seeking, presumably, to point up the coming horrors by contrasting the shocked bewilder ment of an English schoolmaster ...