THIS collection of songs and sketches, originally performed over fifty years ago, celebrates and mocks the various aspects surrounding the First World War, but rich with singalongs from those dark years of conflict.
The initial scenes depicting the differing stances, heavily ironic with the benefit of hindsight, adopted by the various governments set the scene well and the large cast coped admirably with the accents.
Projected photographs showed in graphic detail the appalling conditions that soldiers of both sides endured, with no punch-pulled when it came to showing the sight and statistics of casualties, still shocking after all these years.
Among the versatile cast that dealt well with the gallows-humour, typical of troubled-times, Michael Coulshed was excellent in a variety of roles, Joe Pickering led the audience and Rebecca Stenson and Rebecca Dymott delivered the finest solos, but everyone contributed in director Tony Maclachlan’s production, and oh, it was lovely!
ALAN JOHNS
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