Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. ...
Based on research at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, a film studies academic provides new insight into Australian comedy films of the 1930s and the extraordinary period of social change in which they were produced.