In August 2018 a production was staged to commemorate the end of the First World War at St John's School, Leatherhead, and the Leatherhead Theatre, directed by Graham Pountney. In Spring of 1918, a handful of British officers rooted in a trench while awaiting an offensive by the Boche share a lifetime of dreams, fears, and conflicted emotions during 48 hours preceding a fateful attack. Chekhov's masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. it's very short, but i was still able to grow fond of some of the charachters (specially Osborne's).

Geoffrey Dearmer of the Incorporated Stage Society suggested that Sherriff send the script to George Bernard Shaw, because a good word from him would convince the ISS committee to stage it. A new, young officer, Raleigh, has been placed in Company C, run by Stanhope, who Raleigh just happens to know. They try to fill the space with small talk, but they can’t; they’re about to go on a suicide mission. In one fear-soaked diary entry he couldn’t even muster complete sentences: “Shell whizzes over… feel sick – breathing comes hard heart beats.By showcasing this progression, Sherriff illustrates to the audience exactly how war alters a person’s perspective on life in general.

There are non-Officers in the play, but one of them is played mostly for comic relief, which is Mason, the Cook. Stanhope is angry because Raleigh had seemed to imply that Stanhope did not care about Osborne's death because Stanhope was eating and drinking.

I thought the characters were tremendously well developed, and I was made to feel their anguish and fear. Condensed into a one-hour version by the producer George More O'Ferrall, some short sequences from the film Westfront 1918 (1930) by G. William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in the original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. i stopped reading this for almost two months but i think, retrospectively, it was beneficial for me to take a breather. Ben was so friendly making me feel very welcome in East Anglia and it immediately struck me how knowledgable he was not only about the company but also the wider bus industry and the external influences on it.