Love In Idleness

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This article is about the play. For the Thoroughbred racehorse, see Love in Idleness (horse).

Love In Idleness is a 1944 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan.[1] A young man with radical left-wing views returns from Canada to discover to his horror that his mother is in a relationship with a wealthy businessman currently serving as Minister for Tank Production.

It was staged in New York with the title O Mistress Mine.[2]

Original production

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The play opened (following a pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944, with the following cast:[3]

  • Olivia Brown - Lynn Fontanne
  • Polton - Margaret Murray
  • Miss Dell - Peggy Dear
  • Sir John Fletcher - Alfred Lunt
  • Michael Brown - Brian Nissen
  • Diana Fletcher - Kathleen Kent
  • Celia Wentworth - Mona Harrison
  • Sir Thomas Markham - Frank Forder
  • Lady Markham - Antoinette Keith

References

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  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ Taylor p.150
  3. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Bibliography

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  • John Russell Taylor. The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play. Routledge, 2013.


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