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... over the veracity of de Bemieres' tale of Italian and German occu pation of the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, this picaresque telling transports its audience. Much of the success of the production is down to its simplicity. It ...
... archeological dig into the past becomes an episode out of Dynasty. The ambition, however, is remarkable and when one sees the Second World War enacted in the sandcovered stage by marching soldiers shod in iceskating gear, their steady march disintegrating into ...
... forth with netball equip ment as girls' sport is replaced by that intended for boys. The girls' principal, played like a Second World War tank by Victoria Hardcastle, sweeps all before her and entertains no com promise. The head of the boys' school (David ...
... Middle-aged bach elor Willie McSoriey attempts to get his hands on some Hogmanay booze which is hard to do during the Second World War from local conman Fingers McGeachie, young 'hen' Rita is due to wed stupid soldier Rasputin Plunket, and an unbelievably ...
... rather sceptical about whether the performance functions as an ideological battleground, similar to Czech puppetry in the Second World War, but is left in no doubt that Burkett's puppet theatre plucks the heartstrings and pricks the conscience. William McEvoy ...
... a group of foreigners descend on the Russian border town of Kaliningrad in greedy pur suit of the Amber Room, a lost Second World War treasure. But then one can enjoy the way senti mental, backward and MTV-ador ing General Yashin (James Snell) and his ...
... The story revolves around the disaster that ensued when the American family's firm produced duff aircraft parts in the Second World War. But they too had a pilot son who went missing, and his brother, played by Guy Moore, his former girlfriend, (Harriet ...
... set in Fort Neal, Louisiana, in 1944, where a black regiment is await ing posting to Europe to play their part in the Second World War. It opens with the shooting of a black sergeant and the remainder of the play depicts the investigation of the murder ...
... Compton Mackenzie's novel, about an Outer Hebridean island where a ship car rying whisky to America runs aground during the Second World War, is to stage it as a live radio broadcast of the play, with the audience complicit in the process. This gives director ...
... Bolfry Pitlochry This is playwright James Birdie at his tantalising best. He sets his play in the early years of the Second World War with two young soldiers billeted in the manse of the Rev John McCrimmon, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, tucked ...
... Grand is sensitively directed by Jonathan Church, documenting Anne Frank's last years in hiding from the Nazis during the Second World War. Anne Bedi portrays Frank as a sparky and spirited teenager in what is a very accomplished performance, although her ...
... the surface should surprise no- one who has read [he published memoirs of some of those who commanded armies during the second world war. Kevin Huckstep's Roderigo is a dagoish comic, Peter Broad's Brabantio is an old school diehard, and Andrew Collin's ...