Overture. A drama in three acts

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"You see death can only be one of two things -- It's either other worlds, where we live forever, always as we are now."This play is about an ex-Great War Front Solider named Ritter, who in the 1930s decides incite a Communistic revolution and gets caught. For Ritter, the war had opened his eyes to how the world could be better if societies embodied the camaraderie and equalitarianism he experiences in the trenches. The first performance of this play was done in the Longacre Theatre in New York on 8 December, 1930.The playwright, William Bolitho, was a South African journalist who enlisted in the British Army during the outbreak of the Great War. Stationed on the Western Front Bolitho was the sole survivor of a group of 15 soldiers who were buried alive during a mine explosion on the Somme.