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Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance. Past productions. Duncan C Weldon with Paul Gregg & Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Productions and United British Artists, The Old Vic, London 22 nd May – ? 1984. National Theatre, National Theatre – Cottesloe Theatre (now National Theatre – Dorfman), National Theatre, London started 19 th May 1981.
Guilt Guilt and remorse underscore much of Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance. Musgrave is overcome by guilt over the death of Billy Hicks as well as the five civilians who were killed in retaliation.
VIOLENCE IN SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE 439 tification with ultimate purpose. It is true that to achieve greater dramatic effectiveness and to explore more comprehensively and enable the audience to consider more critically the central issues, Arden tries to fi aintain in his play and transfer to his audience a high degree of objec tivity.
Futility of being a wacky mutineer is one of the significant matters used in Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance. This mainly implied matter exploited by Arden to intentionally criticize the war ...
John Arden is the author of a variety of plays, including All Fall Down, which appeared in 1955, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Live Like Pigs, and The Non-Stop Connolly Show, co-authored and co-produced in 1975 with his wife Margaretta D'Arcy. Silence Among the Weapons, his firs ...
Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance can be set firmly within two contexts: the “angry young men” of the 1950’s and the “Yorkshire writers” of the same era. The two groups are not quite the same ...
Serjeant Musgrave's dance : an unhistorical parable by Arden, John. Publication date 1960 Topics English drama, English drama, Plays -- 20th century, Play -- 1951-1960 Publisher London : Methuen Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language
