Location: New Ambassadors Theatre

Type of production: Play

Opened: 14 September 2005

Booking until: 07 January 2006

Running time: 2 hrs 50 mins

Author/Playwright: R C Sheriff

Synopsis:

Play by R C Sherriff. Directed by David Grindley.

First performed in 1929, RC Sheriff's great anti-war classic Journey's End is set in the British trenches at St Quentin, and is based on the author's own experiences of the Front.

Lieutenant Raleigh has joined the army straight from school and finds himself posted to the Company of Captain Stanhope, barely three years Raleigh's senior and his idol from school. But Stanhope, promoted beyond his experience and years, has changed, and now faces the inevitabilities of the front line.

Journey's End is filled with humour in the face of certain tragedy and is as much the story of its many characters as it is an observation on war.

David Grindley West End credits include National Anthems (Old Vic 2005) and the revivals of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party (New Ambassadors Theatre 2003 then Whitehall Theatre 2003) and Joe Orton's Loot (Vaudeville Theatre 1998).

Following a successful thirteen month season in London's West End between January 2004 to February 2005, this production returns to London 'by popular demand'!

The book Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics) by R.C. Sherriff is available to buy from amazon.co.uk.