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And a Nightingale Sang is a play by British playwright C.P. Taylor (1977) and commissioned by Newcastle upon Tyne's Live Theatre Company. Described as a bitter-sweet comedy, [1] the play is set in Newcastle during World War II and portrays Helen Stott and her family as they cope on the home front with life during the war.
Vera Lynn - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 1940. Dame Vera Lynn, DBE (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917) is an English singer and actress whose musical recordings and...
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Oct 15, 1989 · A 1989 adaptation of C.P. Taylor's play about a family in World War II Newcastle. See cast, crew, plot summary, reviews, awards, and more on IMDb.
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Jun 16, 2015 · By C. P. TaylorDirected by David KennedyJune 9-27, 2015Learn More & Buy Tickets http://www.westportplayhouse.org/And-a-Nightingale-SangEngland on the Eve of ...
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London.
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By the time Michael Arlen wrote “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” the idea of the nightingale was a hackneyed cliché, and could only be deployed if it positively drips with irony — as indeed it does in both Arlen’s story and the song by Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin.
