Journey's End – German Soldier

19:00, Tue 10th – Sat 14th November 2026 at Corpus Playroom

You could have heard a pin drop in the quiet; yet you knew thousands of guns were hidden there, all ready cleaned and oiled — millions of bullets lying in pouches — thousands of Germans, waiting and thinking.

The Western Front, 1918. A group of young British officers await an imminent German offensive.
Each of the men has different coping mechanisms to deal with the horrors of war, as they rely on their increasingly strained camaraderie, amid the claustrophobia of their dugout.
But tension is pushed to breaking point when Lieutenant Raleigh, an eager, fresh-faced recruit, straight out of school, arrives in the trenches to find his friend and childhood hero, Captain Stanhope, profoundly changed by the conflict. Terrified that Raleigh will write home and betray his trauma and alcoholism to the outside world, Stanhope is forced to confront his past. But with the German attack expected any day, time is running out for them all...
A masterpiece of modern theatre and a West End hit, Journey's End is an unapologetically raw portrayal of the relentless intensity of war. It remains the only First World War drama written by a veteran of the trenches, and is widely considered one of the defining dramas of the century.