‘All This And Heaven Too’ performed at The Playhouse Theatre, Changi Gaol P.O.W. Camp (Aug 20, 1944

Note: Willis Toogood & Ron Horner are listed in the cast of actors. To see caricatures of them, go to ‘caricatures & portraits’ on this website.

“In Changi we slept in a courtyard at the end of which stood a huge building forty feet high which was a stage with a wide proscenium: a courtyard whose space was mostly taken up by seats in the open air made out of coco-nut trees split down their centre and placed flat side upwards. This courtyard was Changi’s theatre – the Playhouse, as it was called.”
“Ronald Searle,& other artists, designed and carried out the sets – décor, I believe, is the word – for many of the Playhouse shows, which ranged from Coward to pantomime and which in quality and production could easily have taken their place in any of London’s West End theatres.”
Source: The Naked Island by Russell Braddon; 1955 edition Pan Books Ltd, Pg 255 – 256