There Shall Be No Night
There Shall Be No Night is a three-act play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood.
Production
The play was presented by the Theatre Guild on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (now renamed the Neil Simon Theater), from April 29 through November 2, 1940. (The play ran from April 29, 1940 – August 9, 1940, and again from September 9, 1940 – November 2, 1940.)
Directed by Alfred Lunt, the cast starred Lunt (Dr. Kaarlo Valkonen), Lynn Fontanne (Miranda Valkonen), Charles Ansley (Joe Burnett), and Montgomery Clift (Erik Valkonen).
The play won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Overview
The title comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation (22:5) which is quoted by Lunt's character in Act 3, Scene 6: There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light...
The play is set in Finland between 1938 and 1940 and concerns a Nobel Prize-winning Finnish scientist (portrayed by Alfred Lunt, whose own stepfather was a Finnish-born physician) and his American-born wife (portrayed by Lynn Fontanne), both of whom are reluctant to believe that the Russians will invade their beloved Finland. But with the final advent of Finland's Winter War with the Soviets, their son Erik joins the Finnish army, and the scientist himself joins its medical corps. John Mason Brown wrote, “No one can complain about the theatre's being an escapist institution when it conducts a class in current events at once as touching, intelligent and compassionate as 'There Shall Be No Night'.”
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No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
King Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
For the Babylon is full of bad ways and bad decision
All they know to do is make guns and ammunition
Never yet to ever make any good decision
And the people out there in the street they suffer by that
Hear what I'm saying
No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
King Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
(solo)
For me no in none a dem and a dem cantankorous business
All they want fe do is fasten you up in a politics
But the Rastaman him vote for him dreadlocks already
When I vote for you them tell me now vote for me
Stop that!
No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
King Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
Wake up and look at my doorway early this morning
And when I look out it was the census taker standing
I said bredda man look out and see me vote for me dreadlocks already
When I vote for you, tell me who vote for my baby
No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
Jah Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
No night in a Zion, there is no night there
Hallelujah, there is no night there
Rastafari is our light and we need no other light
Hallelujah, there is no night there
Come and make we sing out the music
No time to idle soldiers
Step up in Zion's Light
No time for boys