Journey's End

Journey's End

    Author: R. C. Sherriff

    First Performance: 1928, London

    Published: 1929

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: British dugout before Saint-Quentin, France, May 1918

    Cast: 11m

Lieutenant Osborne, an elderly former schoolmaster, welcomes young Second Lieutenant James Raleigh to their company, deployed in the trenches in the First World War. However, Osborne warns him that the company commander Captain Stanhope, whom Raleigh had hero-worshipped at school, is a changed man after three years at the front. Stanhope has been able to survive the horrors of war only by drinking heavily. Now Stanhope is angry that Raleigh has joined his company, not least because he fears that Raleigh will write to his sister, Stanhope's fiancée, and reveal that Stanhope ‘reek[s] of whisky all day’. Amidst the soldiers' banter...

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