Cockpit is a 1947 play by Bridget Boland. It first opened in 1948. Since then, it has been staged at various times over the years. It is about the displacement of people in a time after the second world war. The setting is in a German town under British control in May 1945. The production opened at the Playhouse in London in February 1948. The idea for the play came about as a result of Bridget Boland going to Germany in May 1945. She was there to research subjects to be used as material for plays. Her reflections were written in a pressbook for the film, The Lost People. What she described about the displaced people was "a weird surrealistic, dream-like quality about their movements".
Adaptations (1)
Cockpit was adapted into a 1949 film.
The Lost People1949 · film · 89 min · dir. Bernard Knowles · IMDb ↗IMDb6.5Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
