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.