Brave Tommies and dim earls — Oh What a Lovely War is hoity-toity reductionism

Oh What a Lovely War

Stratford East, until 15 March

The Hotel Plays

Langham Hotel, until 8 March

Here it is. Fifty years late. Oh What a Lovely War was originally staged at Stratford East in 1964. It returns to its birthplace to cash in on this year’s anniversary of the Great War. Sorry, I meant commemorate. The title is so familiar that one overlooks its callow, misanthropic glibness.

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TaggedAisling Loftus, First World War, Flanders, Gethin Anaathony, Green Eyes, Joan Littlewood, Langham Hotel, Oh What A Lovely War, Somme, Stratford East, Sunburst, Tennessee Williams, The Hotel Plays, The Pink Bedroom

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Brave Tommies and dim earls — Oh What a Lovely War is hoity-toity reductionism

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