Ebook {Epub PDF} For Services Rendered and Other Plays by W. Somerset Maugham

For Services Rendered – one of the most ironically titled plays around – is an impressive and impassioned play, though on its first run a dismal failure if you consider the fact that Maugham at one point was the world’s most popular playwright (For Services Rendered had less than a hundred performances). But then anti-war messages, and perhaps even less the notion that even winning a . From BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama: Written in For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's incisive state-of-the-nation play - written fifteen years on from the end of WW/5. For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. The play was first performed at the Globe Theatre in London in /5.

1 2 Theatrical Companion to Maugham: a pictoral record of first performances of the plays of W. Somerset Maugham (), Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, accessed at Google Books, 24/12/ ↑ Play of the Week (ITV, ): For Services Rendered, Film TV Database, British Film Institute, accessed 22/12/ Somerset Maugham () had his first successful play produced in By the late s this highly productive playwright determined that he wanted to write only four more plays. The Sacred Flame written in was one of the final four. The general topic for this play was inspired, in part, by a family tragedy. By W. Somerset Maugham Directed by Robin Witt. Years ahead of its time, W. Somerset Maugham's landmark play shows the impact of war on civilian life and suggests that the ideals of honor, patriotism and glory mean nothing if we show no care for the victims of conflict.

Three dramas of W. Somerset Maugham: The letter; The sacred flame; For services rendered by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), Publication date From BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Drama: Written in For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's incisive state-of-the-nation play - written fifteen years on from the end of WW1. Maugham continued to write successful plays, at least one, The Letter (), with a Far East setting. He returned to social criticism with more success—and more controversy—than earlier in his career with dramas such as The Unknown (), The Sacred Flame (), and For Services Rendered (). His last play Sheppey, was written in