Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Osborne describes the madness of war when describing how German soldiers allowed the British to rescue a wounded soldier in no man's land, while the next day the two sides shelled each other heavily. The play is the basis for the film Aces High (1976), although the action was switched from the infantry to the Royal Flying Corps. The piece quickly became internationally popular, with numerous productions and tours in English and other languages. From its initial twelve-week season at the Comedy Theatre from January 2004, it transferred to the Playhouse Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre, finally closing on 18 February 2005. It’s not a book for bus enthusiasts who want detailed route chronologies and fleet lists; nor for those who like their transport books full of photographs.

Shaw replied that, like other sketches of trench life, it was a "useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war", and that "As a 'slice of life' – horribly abnormal life – I should say let it be performed by all means". He talks with the older and world-weary Lieutenant Osborne, a former school teacher, about the war effort and life in the trenches. The entire cast from the Apollo reprised their roles ( George Zucco playing Osborne and Maurice Evans Raleigh) except for Olivier, who had secured another role and was replaced by Colin Clive as Stanhope.

Set in the First World War, "Journey's End" concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. The play is set three days before the Spring Offensive ('Operation Michael') where the Germans advanced from the Hindenburg line, on the Western Front, with the aims to break Allied lines and gain as much land as possible. The classic sense of commanders being out of touch and inhumane appears during the penultimate raid sequence. Special Ltd numbered edition - Exemplaire XIII of L (13 of 50) - produced in Nancy, France, on Arches paper, 7 plated/tissued illustrations by Nicholas Sternberg. The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions.

To the young men who flew over Germany night after night there were other much more pressing worries: the V2 rockets that threatened their loved ones at home; the brand new German jet fighters that could strike them at speeds of over 600mph. He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) and two British Academy of Film and Television Arts.The play itself is set entirely in the trenches in March 1918, and tells the story of a commander and his officers over the time period of three days. Journey’s End draws from the latest scientific evidence, hundreds of near-death experiences and writings from the great mystics and scholars. 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.

Soon after, Stanhope receives a message that Raleigh’s spine has been broken and he’s effectively paralyzed. The play was televised by the BBC Television Service, live from its Alexandra Palace studios, on 11 November 1937, in commemoration of Armistice Day. Reading Ben’s book you see how and why he made Norfolk Green such a renowned award winning company – based on his well grounded experience in the East Anglian bus market from such a young age as well as extensive knowledge of what works and what doesn’t. D'autre part il a ete tire, apres reimposition sur format in-4 telliere, 50 exemplaires sur verge a la cuve des manufactures d'arches numerotes a la presse de I a L. Hibbert, who has tried to fake an eye injury and is considered a coward by Stanhope, tries to remain in bed.An alternative-timeline version of Raleigh appears in the 1995 novel The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman. I watched the TV show, 'Combat' in the 1960's with my dad, a good way to ask questions about the war which he otherwise didn't want to talk about. Following rejection by many theatre managements, "Journey's End" was given a single performance by the Incorporated Stage Society, in which Lawrence Olivier took the lead role. Furthermore the way in which he assesses the complex legacy of the play – it was sometimes derided and for a while fell out of favour, “Missing presumed dull” Gore-Langton quips – contributes to the big debate as to how we should consider the conflict that rumbles on right up to this minute.