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   CW Was a Socialist? Summary of “Judgement at Chelmsford”   
      
   Posted on 1 April 2016	by Sørina Higgins   
      
   _Judgement at Chelmsford_ is a pageant play, written for a church   
   setting. The Diocese of Chelmsford was about to celebrate its 25th   
   anniversary in 1939, and the theatre director Phyllis Potter, with   
   whom Williams had worked before, commissioned him to write them a   
   play. So he did, under his nom de plume “Peter Stanhope” (yes, the   
   playwright from Descent Into Hell). He actually kept up something of a   
   double existence, going under that name at rehearsals. Hadfield   
   claims, in her usual confused way, that there CW had some kind of   
   fight with his wife over the rehearsals of this play, but it is hard   
   to tell from her nearly illiterate syntax what exactly the cause of   
   the argument was (probably CW’s time commitment to the rehearsals and   
   his emotional relationships with members of the cast) or how it was   
   resolved.   
      
   In Judgement at Chelmsford, CW created a huge, sprawling drama about   
   the history of Chelmsford. The play is a very long one, in 8 episodes   
   with a prologue and an epilogue (93 pages in the original 1939 OUP   
   publication; 85 pages in Collected Plays) and has an enormous cast and   
   extremely complex staging, with music written by Martin Shaw.   
      
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