Oh What A Lovely War
I couldn’t get the film, which I last saw about 20 years ago, out of my mind, which was a shame, as I’m sure the production at York Theatre Royal was really quite a good revival. And timely, since as a nation we’re stuck in Afghanistan. Somehow the come on everybody it’s a music hall didn’t quite work here – it seemed contrived.Some good moments – particularly the dance of the shell-shocked.Maybe it’s me. Maybe I have read so much about WW1, been to the battlefields in Flanders; I feel the reality behind the laughter so acutely that I anticipate the descent from laughter into horror.