Autumn
A man entering the autumn of his life is unaware that his wife is unfaithful and is also gradually losing his sight. The domestic drama follows how his physical blindness and ignorance of the affair intersect.
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A man entering the autumn of his life is unaware that his wife is unfaithful and is also gradually losing his sight. The domestic drama follows how his physical blindness and ignorance of the affair intersect.
Escape Me Never is a 1934 play written by Margaret Kennedy based upon her 1930 novel The Fool of the Family. Set in pre World War I Europe, it tells the story of two brothers (Caryl and Sebastian Durbok) who are composers, share a flat, and are both in love with two women—an heiress and a young innocent. The original West End run of the play at the Apollo Theatre starred Elisabeth Bergner for whom the play was written. Bergner, in her Broadway debut, starred also in the play's 1935 production at the Shubert Theatre.
Happy with Either is a 1948 comedy play by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. Best known as a novelist, it was her last play. It ran for 35 performances at St James's Theatre in London's West End between 22 April and 22 May 1948. The original cast included Cyril Raymond, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Adrienne Corri, Valerie Taylor, Angela Baddeley and Constance Cummings. It was produced by Basil Dean. The plot revolves around a bigamist who is allowed back into the lives of his two wives because they miss him.
In the Tyrol, the Sanger children rehearse for their father’s birthday under family friend Lewis, whom Tessa loves. After their father dies, Lewis marries Florence and the children are sent to school in England. Lewis and Tessa later confess their love and flee to a modest Belgian boarding house, where Tessa dies young.
Young composer Lewis Dodd marries Florence, the cousin who cares for the anarchic Sanger family, while Teresa Sanger, a teenager with a heart defect, loves him. Florence's conflicting care and possessiveness strain the marriage; Lewis later realizes his love for Teresa, who dies of heart failure.
A man entering the autumn of his life is unaware that his wife is unfaithful and is also gradually losing his sight. The domestic drama follows how his physical blindness and ignorance of the affair intersect.
Escape Me Never is a 1934 play written by Margaret Kennedy based upon her 1930 novel The Fool of the Family. Set in pre World War I Europe, it tells the story of two brothers (Caryl and Sebastian Durbok) who are composers, share a flat, and are both in love with two women—an heiress and a young innocent. The original West End run of the play at the Apollo Theatre starred Elisabeth Bergner for whom the play was written. Bergner, in her Broadway debut, starred also in the play's 1935 production at the Shubert Theatre.
Happy with Either is a 1948 comedy play by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. Best known as a novelist, it was her last play. It ran for 35 performances at St James's Theatre in London's West End between 22 April and 22 May 1948. The original cast included Cyril Raymond, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Adrienne Corri, Valerie Taylor, Angela Baddeley and Constance Cummings. It was produced by Basil Dean. The plot revolves around a bigamist who is allowed back into the lives of his two wives because they miss him.
In the Tyrol, the Sanger children rehearse for their father’s birthday under family friend Lewis, whom Tessa loves. After their father dies, Lewis marries Florence and the children are sent to school in England. Lewis and Tessa later confess their love and flee to a modest Belgian boarding house, where Tessa dies young.
Young composer Lewis Dodd marries Florence, the cousin who cares for the anarchic Sanger family, while Teresa Sanger, a teenager with a heart defect, loves him. Florence's conflicting care and possessiveness strain the marriage; Lewis later realizes his love for Teresa, who dies of heart failure.