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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, An Un-historical Parable is a play by English playwright John Arden, written in 1959 and premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on October 22 of that year. [1]

33 relations: Alan Dobie, BBC Radio 3, Bertolt Brecht, Coal mining, Colin Blakely, Deus ex machina, Donal Donnelly, Dragoon, Dudley Moore, Frank Finlay, Gatling gun, Greengrocer, Hanging, Iain Glen, Ian Bannen, Jack Smethurst, James Bree (actor), John Arden, Lindsay Anderson, Malayan Emergency, Mau Mau Uprising, Michael Finnegan (song), Mother Courage, Pacifism, Patrick McGoohan, Patsy Byrne, Radio drama, Richard Caldicot, Royal Court Theatre, Stratford Johns, Stuart Burge, Toby Swift, Vietnam War.

Alan Dobie

Alan Russell Dobie (born 2 June 1932), is an English actor.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Colin Blakely

Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish character actor.

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Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina (or; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and seemingly unlikely occurrence, typically so much as to seem contrived.

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Donal Donnelly

Donal Donnelly (6 July 1931 – 4 January 2010) was an Irish theatre and film actor.

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Dragoon

Dragoons originally were a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer.

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Frank Finlay

Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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Gatling gun

The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun.

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Greengrocer

A greengrocer, also called a produce market or fruiterer, is a retail trader in fruit and vegetables; that is, in green groceries.

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Hanging

Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.

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Iain Glen

Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor.

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Ian Bannen

Ian Bannen (29 June 1928 – 3 November 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.

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Jack Smethurst

Jack Smethurst (born 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire, England), is an English television and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.

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James Bree (actor)

James Rutherfoord Worsfold Thomson (20 July 1923 – 1 December 2008), known professionally as James Bree, was a British actor who appeared on stage, and played many supporting roles in both film and television.

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John Arden

John Arden (26 October 1930 – 28 March 2012) was an English Marxist playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".

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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

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Malayan Emergency

The Malayan Emergency (Darurat Malaya) was a guerrilla war fought in pre- and post-independence Federation of Malaya, from 1948 until 1960.

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Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1964), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–63).

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Michael Finnegan (song)

"Michael Finnegan" (variant spellings include Michael Finnagen and Michael Vinnegan) is an example of an unboundedly long song, which can continue with numerous variations until the singer decides (or is forced) to stop.

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Mother Courage

Mother Courage (German Mutter Courage) is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche (The Runagate Courage) dating from around 1670.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan (19 March 1928 – 13 January 2009) was an American-born Irish actor, writer, and director who was brought up in Ireland and England.

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Patsy Byrne

Patricia "Patsy" Byrne (13 July 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English actress, best known for her role as "Nursie" in Blackadder II as well as Malcolm's domineering mother in the ITV comedy series Watching.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Richard Caldicot

Richard Caldicot (7 October 1908 in London – 16 October 1995) was an English actor famed for his role of Commander (later Captain) Povey in the BBC radio series The Navy Lark.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Stratford Johns

Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a South African-born British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars.

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Stuart Burge

Stuart Burge (15 January 1918 - 24 January 2002) was an English film director, actor and producer.

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Toby Swift

Toby Swift is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Redirects here:

Sergeant Musgrave's Dance, Sgt musgrave's dance.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serjeant_Musgrave's_Dance

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