Talk:Journey's End/Sources

RCS' 7th play [1]
and most famous
1st performed 1928
set in trenches Saint-Quentin, France
in 1918
experiences of officers
British Army infantry company
WW I

titles [2]

Plot

Production history

trouble to get produced at West End [3]

Geoffrey Dearmer, ISS, GBS [4]
GBS quote [5]

semi-staged production
Apollo Theatre [6]
Olivier offered Stanhope by Whale [7]
- the director [13]
- aged 21
transferred to Savoy Theatre [8]
- where ran >1 year
- from 1929-01-21 [12]
- entire cast from Apollo reprising except Olivier [9]
  - Colin Clive as Stanhope [9]
  - Zucco Osborne [10]
  - Evans Raleigh [11]

Whale took it to Broadway
1930
dress rehearsal at Henry Miller Theater [14]
1st USA performance the Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, New York, north shore of Long Island [15]
Broadway première next evening [14]
Johnston playing Stanhope, Quartermaine Osborne [16]

N autumn 1929, 14 companies in English, 17 other languages, in London, New York, Paris (in English), Stockholm, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, and Budapest, and in Canada, Australia, and South Africa. [17]
- London later moved to the Prince of Wales Theatre [18]

Whale dir film
starring Clive, Manners, Maclaren.

1937 television version [19]

revived in West End 3 times
also schools and amateur productions

RCS novelised it in 1930.

basis for 1976 film Aces High
changed from infantry to Royal Flying Corps.

Made into a teleplay in 1988

[1] Sherriff, Robert Cedric. No leading lady: an autobiography. London, Victor Gollancz ltd, 1968. ISBN 575001550. p. 17 (ch. 2).
[2] Ibid., p. 39 (ch. 3).
[3] Ibid., p. 9 (ch. 1).
[4] Ibid., pp. 43-44 (ch. 4).
[5] Ibid., p. 45 (ch. 4).
[6] Ibid., p. 52 (ch. 5).
[7] Ibid., p. 49 (ch. 5).
[8] Ibid., p. 70 (ch. 5).
[9] Ibid., p. 74 (ch. 5).
[10] Ibid., p. 73 (ch. 5).
[11] Ibid., p. 75 (ch. 5).
[12] Ibid., p. 76 (ch. 5).
[13] Ibid., p. 46 (ch. 4).
[14] Ibid., p. 129 (ch. 11).
[15] Ibid., p. 129 (ch. 11), p. 141 (ch. 12).
[16] Ibid., p. 130 (ch. 11).
[17] Ibid., p. 181 (ch. 16).
[18] Ibid., p. 187 (ch. 16).
[19] Vahimagi, Tise. British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-19-818336-4. p. 8.