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she dies she says she told the Germans nothing. Two months later the British liberation is in full swing. Some of the regulars abduct Richter and bring him in. They tie him to a chair and tell him he is to be "liquidated" for his murder of Doris. Learning that the Germans are coming to rescue him, they put his chair immediately behind the locked door; he is riddled with bullets by his comrades as they shoot the door down. The regulars and the Shattocks escape through the back door while the radio is heard announcing that the liberation is nearly complete.
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continues and Germany has been defeated at sea. The cellar of the pub has been turned into a base for the resistance. Bannister discovers this, and rushes out. Subsequently, Richter, with two SS guards, comes to arrest Doris. Three days later her broken and dying body is brought back to the pub: as
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revival detailed below, judged that the play explored interesting dramatic questions while still maintaining a close feeling of realism, such as how frustratingly "characters grumble about the indignity of foreign occupation, including food and drink rationing". Questions of loyalty and friendship
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The British public did not want to be reminded of years of deprivation and war; the depressing picture of a defeated people undergoing shortages and domination was all too close to the truth, since Britain was still suffering from austerity and rationing. His audiences expected the escapism of his
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Scenes 3 and 4 are set in early 1942. The pub's supplies of whisky are running low, but the Shattocks decline Richter's offer to obtain supplies for them. After the pub has closed, Billy Grainger, son of two of the regulars, staggers in. He has escaped from a Nazi prison camp. Dr Venning (another
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of 1938, "I believe it is peace for our time". The phrase was frequently quoted as "peace in our time". Coward was advised not to use the phrase for his title, but as his biographer Cole Lesley put it, "Of course he used it, only too delighted to do anything which might anger the pro-Munich lot".
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The time is November 1940. Britain has been conquered and occupied by Nazi Germany. The Shattock family run the Shy Gazelle, with a clientele mostly of locals. The latter are in general ordinary British people, resentful of German occupation but, to varying degrees, resigned to it. One, Chorley
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A handsome and well-dressed German, Albrecht Richter, comes into the bar and is cold-shouldered by the other customers. He leaves after one drink. Bannister warns the others that "a little toleration" of the occupiers is simple common sense. Others disagree, and condemn cowardly expediency.
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by Hitler, an attack on a German officer near the pub and the arrest of a local Jewish tailor by the SS. Richter establishes a friendly relationship with Bannister. Others remain politely hostile, in varying degrees. The most hostile suspect others of being too ready to collaborate.
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were suspected of resenting Coward's depiction of left-wing journalists who collaborated too readily with the Nazis, but other critics, then and later, thought Coward's treatment of the theme fell between two stools: not profound, but not witty enough to make its point by satire.
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wrote, "This play cannot possibly fail. It is too moving, too exciting, too deft – and too timely. We need to be reminded, just now, that we are people of spirit". They were in a minority of the critics, most of whom wrote lukewarm or hostile reviews. Some, including
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The piece is unusual for its sombre tone, being considerably darker than the comedic approach of most of Coward's plays. It was only a moderate success at its first production, running for 167 performances, but has attracted some attention in later revivals.
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resistance member) is summoned, and takes Billy away to hide him. The Shattocks' son, Stephen, subsequently appears briefly: he is also on the run from the Germans. It emerges that he and his sister Doris are active in the resistance movement.
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on 15 July 1947. The audience gave it an enthusiastic welcome, and it seemed as though Coward had a hit on his hands. Nevertheless, before the London opening Coward revised the text extensively. The play opened at the
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The second scene takes place in June 1941. News of events in Britain, on the radio and reported by customers, include the shooting of Winston Churchill, the
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The play is in two acts of four scenes each. The setting is the saloon bar of a London public house called The Shy Gazelle, somewhere between
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or revived in the West End. The large cast makes it a difficult undertaking from a commercial standpoint. Productions include that at the
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The play was put into rehearsal in 1947. Coward wanted a cast of fresh new talent, and auditioned numerous rising actors including
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and occupied the United Kingdom. The work takes inspiration from the real-life sufferings of French citizens during the
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on 22 July. The first night audience received the play with acclaim, but the reviews were generally unfavourable, and
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Act II, Scene 1: Archie Jenkins (John Molecey), Mr Grainger (Trevor Ward), Alfie Blake (Brian Carey), Janet Braid (
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to be liquidated had the Germans taken Britain. The play takes its title from a popular misquotation: the pre-war
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Bannister runs a highbrow magazine and is rightly seen as being too ready to collaborate with the Nazis.
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Coward wrote that he conceived the idea for the play while in Paris shortly after the
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under Coward's supervision; it starred performers who became well known including
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was not among Coward's longer-running plays. It transferred from the Lyric to the
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The phrase "Give peace in our time, O Lord" was familiar in Britain from the
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on 29 September and closed in December after a total of 167 performances.
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In the original version of the play, seen in Brighton, it was the
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Coward was implacably anti-Nazi; he had despised pre-war
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group of people listening to an old-fashioned radio set
Elspeth March
Bernard Lee
Maureen Pryor
Noël Coward
alternative history
pub
Sloane Square
Nazi Germany
Battle of Britain
invaded
German occupation of France
Brighton
West End
Lyric Theatre
Alan Webb
Kenneth More
Bernard Lee
Elspeth March
Maureen Pryor
Aldwych Theatre
Liberation
Nazi occupation
appeasers
Gestapo
list of prominent public figures
British prime minister
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Munich Conference

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