First performed in 1928, RC Sheriff's now classic treatment of the Great War, Journey's End, is revived on the 89th anniversary of the second Battle of the Somme, and will feel instantly familiar in tone and sensibility to anyone who has read the poets of the War, particularly Wilfred Owen.

Although the play suffers from a school textbook quality - it is easy to see why it is taught as an almost historical account of trench warfare - Ashley Harvey has directed with a mature and human touch.

Costa Cambinakis's use of sound and light to suggest the terror and silence of war is praiseworthy, as is Roger Blagrove's set design, evoking both the claustrophobic domesticity of the green and pleasant land and the amniotic safety of the dugout, threatened, on stage right, by the gaping hell mouth which leads to the trenches.

Shaw called this play a "useful corrective to the romantic conception of war". BMH's production is as unromantic as the text allows, and neither bores nor descends into the jingoistic melodrama which might have been expected of the play and the occasion. This is a well-rounded production, and well worth catching.