"Join along with my madness, friend. I brought it back to England but I've brought the cure too - to turn it on to them that sent it out of this country - way-out-ay they sent it, where they hoped that only soldiers could catch it and rave!"

My new favourite modern classic play! Showed in 1959 but set between 1860-1880, Sergeant Musgrave's Dance shows the desire of Sergeant Musgrave to avenge his fellow soldier's death in a colonial war that has lost its fire because the colonised victims have started taking up arms. He comes to an impoverished town in the north of London believing they will join his 'dance'. Little does he know that these people are hungry and hungry people don't want to fight. They want food.

I love how this play calls to attention the problems people face living in a country that has been at war for so long. Just as much as Sergeant's Musgrave's Dance suggests the futility of colonialism, it's shockingly relevant for the wars in Vietnam, Egypt, Iraq and let's admit it, the global wars we are currently living in.