Stark setting in Sunday play
' “Play of the. week” ■ on : NetWork' Onb on Sunday . ■ is set in?. Britain in March lSi44;' ; George Nunn, .a . cor- ; \p9ral' in a Royal Air. Force., Regiment, is on sentry: :■ duty, guarding the per- . ' iineter .of an airfield;. Two ' children come and .play bomber pilots No-one else ■ is 'ardund. The scene is ; flat, empty, cold. The ! next ~ morning George is found -with his '"jaw frozen. He is taken to the nearest R.A.F. hospital and put in a ward with airmen who are all suffering from some kind . of-_-itTSshock. . ■ . .
; . .Ail the action in ‘’Thfr . Brylcreem Boys” L." takes-i ’ place in this ward. The ‘set.
is stark and bare —• a few chairs only, but when'“the Skipper”, gets the men worked up : one night, has them all reliving . the ’.horrors . which • brought them to the hospital, .the : .dramatic ; effect is mov- ■ ingly believable. - Will .this remembered pain only add td< the;-tor-merit of these men, or will they work through their own private hells to find their way back to reality? Written by Peter Durrant, the play was produced for the 8.8. C. by Innes Lloyd, and directed by;,Roger, ?.,... ■ Davis Threlfall plays ;: the' pant; ; of? George Nunn;; ?. with -Steven- 1 Grives * as: ■..‘/the-Skipper.”
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Press, 11 September 1980, Page 13
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