R. C. Sherriff

Mr Baldwin's retirement is something of a disappointment to him. His boredom, his wife’s dismay at the quiet orderliness of her life being destroyed and their growing tension with each other slowly grows, until one day they go for a country walk and discover Weldon Valley. Their lives change forever when they see a house for sale and decide to move there.

Set in World War I, this play opens in the trenches in France and concerns the lives of a group of British officers on the front line and deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare.