Directed by Joan Sargent

John Forsyth is a businessman of considerable wealth but when son Edgar and his new bride return from honeymoon, they discover that father’s business is in trouble.
Although public school educated, Edgar is hopelessly unemployable. When his father is bankrupted after speculating with his dwindling capital, the family face disaster.
Step forward Edgar’s new wife, Sidney, a socialist and suffragist who announces that she will take a secretarial job and become the breadwinner, to which her husband replies “no decent husband could live off his wife’s earnings”.
From the author of Hindle Wakes, the play suggests that female independence can be combined with marital harmony. Ground breaking in 1909, its mix of feminism, romance and razor-sharp wit makes it as relevant today as it was 100 years ago.

Booking opens Monday 27th September 2010