Then last night, prompted by allegations that the National Theatre was to put it on again, we watched it again and it was still good. We particularly liked the two leads - Rachel Weisz as Hester and Tom Hiddleston as Freddie - both people of whom I had never before heard. Not that that means that much as I usually have great trouble remembering who plays what.
Then this morning I go to the National Theatre site to find it tells me nothing. However, google turns up a site called 'WhatsOnStage' where it says that the revival was announced in September last year for June this year - with the horizon on the National Theatre site seeming to be May. Not impressed; they should provide a better service for their followers.
So today's punt is even money on our getting to see it.
PS: the story line of the world war two hero having trouble adapting to the peace crops up in Agatha, I think more than once. It was also something my mother, who went through the second war at or near Winchester, used to talk about occasionally. I am trying to think now whether it cropped up after the first world war - without success. Perhaps it takes the particular sort of heroism involved in being a pilot, the flying of sorties day after day, with the chances of coming through being not too good at all. Perhaps there was not enough of this in the first war for the tendency to be observed. Or perhaps the explanation is simpler, that the literary & artistic focus was on the senseless slaughter, slaughter of a kind which was not repeated the second time around, at least not on the western front.
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