Journey's End

by R. C. Sherriff

Overview

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed ...

Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of Journey's End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success and remains a remarkable anti-war classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141912769
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	10/26/2000
Series:	Penguin Modern Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

R.C. Sherriff (1896-1975) served as a captain in the East Surrey regiment during the First World War and subsequently tried his hand at writing. Following rejection by many theatre managements, Journey's End was given a single performance by the Incorporated Stage Society, in which Lawrence Olivier took the lead role. The play's enormous success enabled Sherriff to become a full-time writer. He is remembered for his plays, the screenplays for the films The Invisible Man (1933), Goodbye Mr Chips (1933) and The Dam Busters (1955), and the novel The Hopkins Manuscript (1939).

Editorial Reviews

By the waning months of WWI, English troops remained dug in 100 yards from the enemy. Waiting. In this superb audio adaptation of this 1928 classic drama, the naturalistic dialogue is what will draw the listener into the trenches--it's that realistic and affecting. The production features a cast of top-tier English character actors. Matthew Wolf finds the gentle humor in Captain Hardy; Darren Richardson captures the youthful naïveté of the forgetful cook, Mason; while Jack Cutmore-Scott focuses on the world-weary responsibilities of Captain Stanhope. When a young recruit and friend from Stanhope's hometown arrives on the eve of the next battle, the captain realizes honor and valor may be just hollow words. Tense, all too human, and devastating--like war itself. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2024 - AudioFile