Cockpit (play)
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| Cockpit | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Bridget Boland |
| Date premiered | February, 1948 |
| Place premiered | The Playhouse, London |
Cockpit is a 1947 play by Bridget Boland. It first opened in 1948. Since then, it has been staged at various times over the years.
It is about the displacement of people in a time after the second world war. The setting is in a German town under British control in May 1945.[1]
The production opened at the Playhouse in London in February 1948.[2][3]
The idea for the play came about as a result of Bridget Boland going to Germany in May 1945. She was there to research subjects to be used as material for plays. Her reflections were written in a pressbook for the film, The Lost People. What she described about the displaced people was "a weird surrealistic, dream-like quality about their movements". Coming back home and haunted by the memories of what she saw, she felt the need to write her play about this.[4]
In a review of a 2017 production of the play, the reviewer for The Scotsman wrote, "the story and the scenario have the urgency of vital documentary drama: a raw living-newspaper piece, 70 years old, that has suddenly become contemporary again".[5]