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  • RCS' 7th play [1]
  • and most famous
  • 1st performed 1928
  • set in trenches Saint-Quentin, France
  • in 1918
  • experiences of officers
  • British Army infantry company
  • WW I
  • titles [2]

Plot

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Production history

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  • trouble to get produced at West End [3]
  • Geoffrey Dearmer, ISS, GBS [4]
  • GBS quote [5]
  • semi-staged production
  • Apollo Theatre [6]
  • Olivier offered Stanhope by Whale [7]
    • the director [13]
    • aged 21
  • transferred to Savoy Theatre [8]
    • where ran >1 year
    • from 1929-01-21 [12]
    • entire cast from Apollo reprising except Olivier [9]
      • Colin Clive as Stanhope [9]
      • Zucco Osborne [10]
      • Evans Raleigh [11]
  • Whale took it to Broadway
  • 1930
  • dress rehearsal at Henry Miller Theater [14]
  • 1st USA performance the Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, New York, north shore of Long Island [15]
  • Broadway première next evening [14]
  • Johnston playing Stanhope, Quartermaine Osborne [16]
  • N autumn 1929, 14 companies in English, 17 other languages, in London, New York, Paris (in English), Stockholm, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, and Budapest, and in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. [17]
    • London later moved to the Prince of Wales Theatre [18]
  • Whale dir film
  • starring Clive, Manners, Maclaren.
  • 1937 television version [19]
  • revived in West End 3 times
  • also schools and amateur productions
  • RCS novelised it in 1930.
  • basis for 1976 film Aces High
  • changed from infantry to Royal Flying Corps.
  • Made into a teleplay in 1988

[1] Sherriff, Robert Cedric. No leading lady: an autobiography. London, Victor Gollancz ltd, 1968. ISBN 575001550. p. 17 (ch. 2).
[2] Ibid., p. 39 (ch. 3).
[3] Ibid., p. 9 (ch. 1).
[4] Ibid., pp. 43-44 (ch. 4).
[5] Ibid., p. 45 (ch. 4).
[6] Ibid., p. 52 (ch. 5).
[7] Ibid., p. 49 (ch. 5).
[8] Ibid., p. 70 (ch. 5).
[9] Ibid., p. 74 (ch. 5).
[10] Ibid., p. 73 (ch. 5).
[11] Ibid., p. 75 (ch. 5).
[12] Ibid., p. 76 (ch. 5).
[13] Ibid., p. 46 (ch. 4).
[14] Ibid., p. 129 (ch. 11).
[15] Ibid., p. 129 (ch. 11), p. 141 (ch. 12).
[16] Ibid., p. 130 (ch. 11).
[17] Ibid., p. 181 (ch. 16).
[18] Ibid., p. 187 (ch. 16).
[19] Vahimagi, Tise. British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-19-818336-4. p. 8.