Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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None of which are Heroes, they are humans and this play portrays the human aspect of soldiers in The Great War. Whether that's putting new work on stages across the world or supporting our outreach and learning programmes, every purchase you make really does make a difference. i stopped reading this for almost two months but i think, retrospectively, it was beneficial for me to take a breather.

The characters are colorful and well depicted so I found myself enjoying the drama through their eyes.Whale travelled to the United States to direct the Broadway production in 1930 at Henry Miller's Theatre. William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Although it was fought by air and sea too, it’s the land war we tend to picture first when our thoughts turn to the First World War – as inevitably they will this centenary year – and above all of course the Western Front and the Trenches. This is something for those interested in the links between society, communities, workplaces and transport. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues to this day, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany.

this isn't one of them and when combined with the fact that it was based on the author's own experiences it's a very impressive piece of work.I was going to give this particular book/play three stars, but on deeper reflection, I'm going with four. In 2015 the Shute Theatre and Arts Guild (STAG) staged a production of the play in St Michael's Church, Shute, Devon, directed by Elisabeth Miller. It truly is a fascinating account and many managers grappling with challenges and issues in today’s bus companies could do well to read a copy and learn from mistakes from the past as well as what worked well which Ben rightly highlights. As always when I read something like this about any war, I find myself contemplating two major questions. Ben also encapsulates the drawbacks of the National Bus Company’s centralised structure introduced towards the end of the 1960s and just to prove nothing is new looks at the issues of central versus local decision making.

This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout.The seemingly mundane conversations between the officers worked perfectly to convey the monotony on the front. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. Interestingly, this was one of Laurence Oliver’s earliest works and one of the stepping stones for what would become one of the most illustrious acting careers of the 20th century.

Because it was broadcast live, and the technology to record television programmes did not exist at the time, no visual records of the production survive other than still photographs. When several candles are burning at the same time, it can make the temperature quite hot and unbearable. However, its director, Jack Gold, has also added some portions from Cecil Lewis's book "Sagittarius Rising".

It was almost as much of a fluke that his modest play, which had little obvious commercial appeal and might easily have been passed over as lacking novel interest for a war-weary public, got taken up for a short set of performances at the Apollo.