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]

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.