20-437: The Year(s) Between may refer to: The Years Between (play) , a play by Daphne du Maurier The Years Between (film) , a 1946 British film based on the play The Year Between , an independent 2023 American comedy film starring, written, and directed by Alex Heller Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-468: A disturbing experience.” Clive Brook as the soldier-husband was so sympathetic, while Nora Swinburne as the wife made her character unattractive, "and it seemed to her the whole balance of the play was wrecked.” Reviewing for the Evening Standard on 13 January 1945 (four months before VE Day ), under the headline 'It Might Have Been So Good', the critic (and MP) Beverley Baxter wrote: "When
60-509: A poor and empty play" which “enshrines the worst characteristics of the British film, and condones the worst qualities of the least representative section of the British race.” Chiding the producers, Sydney Box and his sister Betty , who also wrote the screenplay, he describes it as a "novelettish distortion" of a contemporary problem. “Alas’’ he continues, “the note is one of genteel reverence. We are at war in 1940 but not an aeroplane engine
80-589: Is a play by the English writer Daphne du Maurier , better known as a novelist and particularly as the author of Rebecca (which she had adapted for the London stage in 1940). This is one of two original plays that she wrote. The other is September Tide (1948). Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, The Years Between unfolds in the library/living room of an English country house. The man of
100-499: Is heard. A realistic plastic reproduction of the House of Commons was erected solely for the purpose of allowing Miss Valerie Hobson M.P. to make her maiden speech [strong on] cliché value. Yet Mr Churchill ’s and Mr Morrison ’s doubles – and the whole House – are staggered by its brilliance. This in 1941.” Finally, he notes, “The returned soldier of Michael Redgrave, with a highly justifiable dislike of everything and everybody he finds,
120-507: Is the only character you can believe in, and there isn’t one you can like, and that goes particularly for nanny Flora Robson .” In 2011 Dominic Cavendish, reviewing a Production at Deangate Theatre in Northampton, describes the play as, 'finally getting the kind of push it needed to place it permanently on the map of essential 20th century theatre'. He notes how the play deals not with the Second World War, but its consequences in changing
140-478: The Manchester Opera House in the autumn of 1944. It then transferred to London, opening at Wyndham's Theatre on 10 January 1945 starring Nora Swinburne and Clive Brook . The production, directed by Irene Hentschel became a long-running West End hit, completing 617 performances. It was also turned into a 1946 film starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson . After 60 years of neglect
160-522: The Royal Air Force , he was killed shortly after the Battle of Britain , on 10 September 1940. He was buried at Schoonselhof cemetery , Antwerp , Belgium. In his obituary The Times observed: No one could possibly suggest that John Rathbone was a man of war. He hated it. His readiness to serve his country and before war came to prepare himself is typical of his high sense of duty ; and
180-573: The United States in the summer of 1934, sailing back to Britain aboard the RMS ; Aquitania in October. They returned to America in 1936, again sailing back to Britain in the October, this time aboard the RMS Queen Mary . Rathbone travelled as part of a parliamentary delegation, accompanied by Beatrice, to Nazi Germany . A fluent German speaker, he was appalled at what he saw in
200-731: The country as he participated in the work of the delegation. He was a qualified pilot, learning to fly with the Old Etonian Flying Club and getting his Avro Club membership on 19 May 1938. Upon returning from Germany, Rathbone called a meeting in his constituency to announce that he was joining the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve . He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply from July to September 1939, when World War II broke out. A flight lieutenant and fighter pilot with
220-436: The curtain rose again we waited for the unfolding of a tragedy or the playing out of an ironic comedy. Unhappily, Miss du Maurier had shot her bolt. Having created an admirable situation, she could do nothing to resolve it. So she decided to end the war, which was accomplished by the use of the radio and, one has to record, to the titters of some people in the audience." And he concluded: "What a pity that Miss du Maurier abandoned
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#1732797457832240-585: The example he set among those with whom he came in contact remains a truly noble inspiration. Rathbone was the nephew of Eleanor Rathbone , who had been an independent MP for the Combined English Universities between 1929 and 1946, and a staunch women's rights campaigner. He was a grandson of William Rathbone , Liberal MP for Liverpool and later Carnarvonshire. His son, also called John Rankin Rathbone, but known as Tim Rathbone ,
260-582: The house, Colonel Michael Wentworth, MP, is presumed dead after his plane crashed into the sea on a flight to Europe in 1942. His wife Diana is persuaded to take over the Colonel's parliamentary seat, and she is supported in her endeavours by her neighbour Richard Llewellyn, a sympathetic farmer with whom she strikes up a romantic relationship. Llewellyn teaches the Wentworths' young son Robin how to fish, thus becoming his great friend. Three years later, as
280-541: The lives of men and women irreversibly, 'exemplified and exacerbated in a middle class marriage.' John Rathbone John Rankin Rathbone (5 February 1910 – 10 December 1940) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was born in 1910 to William Rathbone, a marine architect , and Agnes Dorothea Rankin. For his education, Rathbone attended West Downs and Eton College before attending Christ Church, Oxford . Whilst up at Oxford, he met an American student, Beatrice Frederika Clough , who had come to study at
300-512: The play for a message! There are so many messages these days and so few plays." The Stage review of the 2007 Orange Tree revival found that “the play offers only a toff's eye of Britain at war” with a live-in servant and “a cellar full of claret, even if Spam fritters are on the menu.” This was also brought out forcefully by Richard Winnington in his devastating but still relevant film review ( News Chronicle , London, 25 May. 1946). He calls Compton Bennett 's film "a poor and empty adaptation of
320-560: The play was revived by Caroline Smith at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames on 5 September 2007, starring Karen Ascoe, Mark Tandy and Michael Lumsden in the principal roles. Du Maurier had begun writing the play in the summer of 1943 which, according to Margaret Forster ’s biography, she frankly admitted was autobiographical, although also based on another real-life story. “ John Rathbone , MP for Bodmin,
340-500: The title The Years Between . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Years_Between&oldid=1174375260 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Years Between (play) The Years Between
360-561: The university. The couple married in 1932 and had two children, a son, John Rankin Rathbone (known as Tim) and a daughter, Pauline Rathbone. From the 1935 general election until his death, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bodmin constituency in Cornwall . After his death, his American-born wife Beatrice was elected unopposed to succeed him as MP. The family lived in the constituency at Elmsleigh. John and Beatrice travelled to
380-473: The war is about to come to an end, the Colonel returns. He has been playing a key role in organising the resistance movement in Occupied Europe, and his disappearance and death were staged by the authorities to provide convincing cover for his activities. The remainder of the play deals with the fallout of Michael's return on the various protagonists. The Years Between was first performed on stage at
400-470: Was reported missing in 1940. His wife was returned unopposed to fill his place when his death was confirmed. In 1942 she remarried and shortly afterwards it was rumoured that her first husband was, after all, alive and a prisoner. The rumour turned out to be untrue.” (Note 3, page 434) Involved with the West End production and being at Wyndham's (her father Sir Gerald ’s old theatre) du Maurier found “was
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