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Performance

VenueThe Watermill Theatre
TownNewbury
CountyBerkshire
From7th March 2007
To14th April 2007
When19:30. Thu, Sat Mats 14:30
PricesFrom £10.50. To £20.00.
The Watermill Theatre (V733)
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For Services Rendered

For Services Rendered

Work:: For Services Rendered (S0731314453)

Fifteen years after Armistice day Leonard Ardsley remarks: "I think the world is turning the corner... This old England of ours isn't done yet." Written in 1932, For Services Rendered poignantly dramatises provincial middle class English life in the depression after the Great War. Set in the picturesque Kentish village of Rambleton, it becomes a metaphor for the shattering effect of the Great War on British society. Written by a man who experienced first hand the horrors of this catastrophic conflict whilst serving as part of an ambulance unit behind Allied lines, the play asks what has happened to "the land fit for heroes' promised by Lloyd George. This scathing anti-comedy was described in 1932 by the Daily Express as: "a play of malevolent propaganda". It is now recognised as the dramatic masterpiece of one of the 20th century's most successful writers of prose and drama.
Author Somerset Maugham

Production:: (T0343667196)

Producer The Watermill
Director Edward Hall
Design Francis O'Connor
Lighting Oliver Fenwick
Sound Chris Full
Performer Polly Adams (Charlotte Ardsley)
Performer Tom Beard (Collie Stratton)
Performer Richard Clothier (Sydney Ardsley)
Performer Lucy Fleming (Gwen Cedar)
Performer Christopher Good (Dr Prentice)
Performer Olivia Llewellyn (Lois Ardsley)
Performer Abigail McKern (Eva Ardsley)
Performer John Nettleton (Leonard Ardsley)
Performer Issy van Randwyck (Ethel Bartlett)
Performer Yvonne Riley (Gertrude)
Performer Simon Slater (Howard Bartlett)
Performer David Yelland (Wilfred Cedar)

Listing:: L0713682193




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