For you chance to experience one of the most compelling World War I plays ever written, get your Journey's End tickets today.
Written by R C Sherriff, Journey's End is set in 1918, and tells the story of the experiences of the officers of a British Army infantry in the trenches at Saint-Quentin, France. Journey's End focuses on 21-year-old Captain Dennis Stanhope and is second-in-command, Lieutenant 'Uncle' Osborne - also a friend and confidant. When 18-year-old Second Lieutenant Jimmy Raleigh, brother of Stanhope's girlfriend, joins his company, he and Osborne are sent to raid a German trench – Raleigh survives but Osborne is killed by a grenade, and Stanhope takes it out on the young soldier.
Raleigh cannot understand the false bravado his fellow men adopt over Osborne's death, and Stanhope cannot understand Raleigh's lack of emotion. Then, in the big German attack, Raleigh is hit in the back by shrapnel – he dies in Stanhope's arms, and the Captain realizes, as he loses what has become his second closes friend that he will have to face the rest of the war on his own.
The play takes place over four days, and is full of strong themes and characters, making it one of the best regarded plays about the war. For your chance to see it, get your Journey's End tickets today.