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Cockpit (play)
''Cockpit'' is a 1947 play by Bridget Boland. It first opened in 1948. Since then, it has been staged at various times over the years. Background It is about the displacement of people in a time after the second world war. The setting is in a German town under British control in May 1945. The production opened at the Playhouse in London in February 1948. The idea for the play came about as a result of Bridget Boland going to Germany in May 1945. She was there to research subjects to be used as material for plays. Her reflections were written in a pressbook for the film, ''The Lost People''. What she described about the displaced people was "a weird surrealistic, dream-like quality about their movements". Coming back home and haunted by the memories of what she saw, she felt the need to write her play about this. In a review of a 2017 production of the play, the reviewer for ''The Scotsman'' wrote, "the story and the scenario have the urgency of vital documentary drama: a raw l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Boland
Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was a British screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Life Bridget Boland was born in London on 13 March 1913 to Irish politician John Pius Boland and Eileen Querin Boland ( Moloney). Boland was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton and at Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics, and economics, graduating B.A. in 1935. In 1937 she became a film writer. From 1941 to 1946 she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, producing plays for the troops to boost morale from 1943 to 1946. Ronald Hayman, 'Bridget Boland', in K. A. Berney, ed., ''Contemporary British Dramatists'', Gale, 1994, pp. 81-83 Boland reflected on her life and work in 1987: Works Selected filmography * '' Laugh It Off'' (1940) * '' Gaslight'' (1940) * '' Freedom Radio'' (1941) * '' He Found a Star'' (1941) * '' This England'' (1941) * '' Prelude to Fame'' (1950) * '' The Fake'' (1953) * ''The Prisoner'' (1955) * ''War an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |