by Willis Hall · Heinemann ed · tapa dura · ISBN 9780435233020
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«The Long and the Short and the Tall» is the play by Willis Hall, published by Heinemann in hardcover (128 pages, in English).
Set in the Malayan jungle in 1942, during World War II, the play follows a group of British soldiers in hostile territory. The plot centers on the tensions and conflicts that erupt among them when war forces them to decide how to survive.
The play was originally published in 1959; this edition belongs to the «Heinemann Plays For 14-16+» collection.
Edition from the «Heinemann Plays For 14-16+» collection, aimed at secondary school students and at dramatic reading in the classroom.
Willis Edward Hall was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain; and television programmes including Budgie, Worzel Gummidge and Minder. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including Wind in the Willows, The Card, and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure.
