about...The Winslow Boy

Director: Gwenda Hughes; Cast: Nicholas Caunter, John Feehan, Maria Gough, Pauline Jefferson, Caroline John, Zoot Lynam, Paul Webster, Robert Whelan, Christopher Ravenscroft, David Smith, Paula Stockbridge

"The facts of the Archer-Shee case ... had so fascinated and moved me that unlike many ideas that will peacefully wait in the store-room of the mind until their time for emergence has come, demanded instant expression"

So said Terence Rattigan, of the play "The Winslow Boy". This collaboration between Birmingham Repertory Theatre and The West Yorkshire Playhouse brought a sharp new production of the text to the stage. A study of the middle classes in England immediately prior to the 1914-1918 war as much as an interpretation of the events surrounding the Archer-Shee case, this is a clear evocation of the period and a dissection of the anatomy of English emotion.

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