Oak Leaves and Laurels
FTER the bad reception that Sean O’Casey’s play Oak Leaves and Lavender received when it was first produced last May, the recent success with London = audiences ,of Noel Coward’s Peace in Our Time should give some consolation to those critics who have been croaking that British drama, too, is in the doldrums. Like O'Casey’s play ‘which is about the inhabitants of a Devon village during the Battle of Britain), Peace in Our Time also describes wartime Britain, but it is an imaginary Britain, occupied by the Nazis, but, by presenting a conquered English, Coward has, with some clever psychological writing and heavy sentiment, created a play to rival the present success of American-produced plays in London theatres.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 29
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121Oak Leaves and Laurels New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 29
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