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Tuesday March 15, 2005

Journey's End

Saw Journey's End last weekend which after a season in the West End is now doing a national tour. It was on at the Hexagon theatre in Reading.

The play is based in a dugout in the first world war. There is only one set of scenery which is the officers 'mess' in the dugout. The characters show the different ways men were affected by the terrible events; one officer who is trying to throw a sickie to get home, an older officer who seems to be unaffected (but is), the head officer who is clearly suffering battle fatigue and drinks far too much and his friend from school who has just joined them who thinks this is all jolly good fun. There is also a Sergeant, a Baldrick type person. As the play progresses we are shown more about these men and how they all interact. Without spoiling it for anyone I think it is clear the end will be tragic and is so. The ending of the play features all the cast standing in front of a war memorial with the last post playing.

Before we went to the play we went to a bookshop to buy my father in law a birthday present. We got him Tommy by Richard Holmes . The book covers the life of a British soldier in the first world war.I looked over the book on the way home on the train. The pictures reminded me graphically how horrible it must have been.

On a lighter note we walked into the village later that night and had an excellent curry at the Haweli . Strange a village like Twyford which is not large has four curry houses. The UK's love of this food is clearly alive and well.

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