"JOURNEY'S END."
R. C. Sheriff's war play, "Journey's End,"' at the Grand Opera House, is a remarkable play in many ways: it is in three acts, but has one scene, a dreary, dirty dug-out near St. Quentin; the complete cast numbers but twelve, all men; the hopeless drag of war days is ever stressed; everything goes wrong, and tho endIng Is tragic; yet the play Is a tremendous success—it Is a play which carries through the job upon which the author set out, to present a trench warfare picture In dreary, yet most Impressive fashion. The strangely differing characters of the men, thrown together by the war machine, make the play, and .nost cleverly have these contrasts in thought ■ and physique, too; been held one against the other by the playwright. There is, howbver, more .than brilliant dialogue in tho presentation, for tho final touches of realism .are given by the off and on stage effects, the roar and racket, the lights and signals of the Western Front. It Is a play among very many, and It Is presented by the J; C. Williamson Company in a finished and most thoroughly convincing manner. "Journey's End'P' will ■be staged again this evening. A matinee'performance is being
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 14
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