Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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stanhope experienced that three years ago; he is hardly clinging on, yet performing the capable leader. Raleigh is only three years younger, but there’s a gulf in terms of the wartime experience that separates the pair. I thought the atmosphere in this book was rather confined, and this is obviously because of the setting in which the characters are based. m. Stanhope states that such a plan is absurd, and that the General and his staff merely want this so their dinner will not be delayed.

During 2014 it was presented at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton; directed by David Thacker, it featured David Birrell, Richard Graham and, as Stanhope, James Dutton. Journey’s End draws from the latest scientific evidence, hundreds of near-death experiences and writings from the great mystics and scholars. 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 focuses on a group of officers hunkered down together, but complete with regular meals, servants, a cook, the whole shebang that one would associate with the upper crust, or the young men of the officer class. It’s his responsibility not to crack under the pressure, but he really is little more than a boy falling apart.The piece quickly became internationally popular, with numerous productions and tours in English and other languages.

But I love the theatre and I’ve wanted to read Journey’s End for a while now because I’ve heard it was beautiful and tragic. He is therefore unhappy with the arrival of Raleigh, who is not just a boy from his school who hero-worships him, but the brother of a girl about whom he has affection. Ben also describes company structures and isn’t very complimentary about managements following World War Two, bound as they were into not taking risks as a result of what he describes as absurd conditions created by the 1930 Road Traffic Act.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. Hardcover in black cloth spine on original patterned paper boards, fade to spine, wear to edges, else sharp. I read this many years ago, but just noticed they have recently made it into a movie , so I decided to revisit it. If we add to this the overzealous use of mustard gas then a picture reminiscent of a living hell is an apt description. This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope and his officers await attack in their dugout.