Peace In Our Time (play)

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Peace In Our Time is a 1946 two-act play by Noel Coward. It has 8 scenes, a cast of 22 speaking roles, and received its first performance at the Lyric Theatre in 1947. It was first published in 1948. Coward was inspired to write the play by seeing the effects of the occupation of France in Paris, writing "The idea of Peace in Our Time was conceived in Paris shortly after the Liberation. . . I began to suspect that the physical effect of four years intermittent bombing is far less damaging to the intrinsic character of a nation than the spiritual effect of four years enemy occupation."[1]

The play takes its title from the common misquotation of Neville Chamberlain's phrase Peace for our time after arriving back from the Munich conference of 1938. The play focuses on a small group of Londoners in a pub close to Sloane Square, in an alternate past where Germany won the Battle of Britain and successfully invaded and occupied Britain. Its large cast means it is rarely performed.

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  • Alma Boughton
  • Fred Shattock
  • Janet Braid
  • Doris Shattock
  • Mr. Grainger
  • Mrs. Grainger
  • Nora Shattock
  • Lyia Vivian
  • George Bourne
  • Ben Capper
  • Archie Jenkins
  • Mr Williams
  • Chorley Bannister
  • Bobby Plaxton
  • German Officer
  • Albrecht Richter
  • Phyllis Mere
  • Maudie
  • Mrs. Massiter
  • Gladys Mott
  • Alfie Blake
  • Mr. Lawrence
  • German Officer
  • Herr Huberman
  • Kurt Forster
  • Frau Huberman
  • Billy Grainger
  • Doctor Venning
  • Lily Blake
  • Stevie

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