Stirling Players present Peace in Our Time

Opening Friday 13 March, director Geoff Brittain has assembled an excellent cast of seventeen to bring Peace in Our Time to life on the Stirling Community Theatre stage. 

Noel Coward’s post-war play Peace in Our Time, imagines a reality where Germany had succeeded in destroying the British defences in 1945 and occupied the country. 

The script is inspired by Coward’s visits to occupied Paris and explores how ordinary English people might have reacted to Nazi occupation. How divisions driven by survival, conformity and resistance would tear apart the fabric of normal society is illustrated by a host of characters at an inner-city London pub. 

In a diversion from his regular quick-witted, searing comedies, Coward’s characters represent a microcosm of English society, a newspaper editor, an author, an actress, a few old pensioners, a secretary, who all frequent the quintessential British pub, the Shy Gazelle.

The dialog is descriptive, at times poignant and thoughtful, allowing the audience to understand the complicated considerations of the characters through fear, nationalism, and the practicality of ‘getting on’. The ensemble is accompanied by live piano adding to the pub atmosphere.

The season spans three weekends at the Stirling Community Theatre, Avenue road Stirling.