Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonI can see why the 1942 French novella by Vercors, on which this play is based, made a great movie: Philip French called Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film a "claustrophobic masterpiece". But, although it is well presented in this final production of the Donmar's West End season, Anthony Weigh's adaptation rarely sparks into theatrical life.A young German lieutenant is billeted with an elderly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PM on January 15, 2013