Name: There Shall Be No Night - Robert E. Sherwood - Best Plays of New York Stage
Uploaded: 2021-02-12T04:28:54+00:00
Duration: 59 min 50 s
Description: There Shall Be No Night is a three-act play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood. The title comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation (22:5) which is quoted in Act 3, Scene 6: There

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There Shall Be No Night is a three-act play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.

The title comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation (22:5) which is quoted in Act 3, Scene 6: There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light...

The play is set in Finland between 1938 and 1940 and concerns a Nobel Prize-winning Finnish scientist and his American-born wife, both of whom are reluctant to believe that the Russians will invade their beloved Finland. But with the final advent of Finland's Winter War with the Soviets, their son Erik joins the Finnish army, and the scientist joins its medical corps.

John Mason Brown wrote “No one can complain about the theatre's being an escapist institution when it conducts a class in current events at once as touching, intelligent and compassionate as There Shall Be No Night.

From New York where the American Stage begins NBC presents "Best Plays" - A series of hour-length dramas selected from the outstanding successes of the New York Stage

Originally Broadcast 1/25/1953
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