Chicago Reader

For Services Rendered explores the ongoing trauma of World War I

When W. Somerset Maugham’s British war drama For Services Rendered premiered in 1932, it offered unprepared audiences a stark exploration of the enduring consequences of the First World War and a ...
The Arts Desk

For Services Rendered, Jermyn Street Theatre review – uneven revival of 1930s drama

The setting is appropriately idyllic: a garden in rural Kent (the village’s name is Ramblestone, naturally), late summer 1932, the gentle thwocks of a game of tennis drifting over the fence. Eden ...