Aren’t We All?

Summary: 1960 BBC production of the comedy of manners Aren’t We All? by Frederick Lonsdale.
Theatre play: Aren’t We All? by Frederick Lonsdale (1881-1954) [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy of manners in which the action of the play takes place in the Hon. Willie Tatham’s house in Mayfair, and in Lord Grenham’s country house in the year 1923. ‘Tatham who, having been consigned to the proverbial doghouse for a romantic indiscretion, is determined to catch his self-righteous wife in an extramarital kiss of her own, while a society grande dame attempts to snare herself a peer prone to afternoon assignations with shopgirls at the British Museum’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aren%27t_We_All%3F).
Production history: The play by this British playwright premiered on Broadway on May 21, 1923 with a cast that included Leslie Howard. Neither this production nor a revival two years later was successful.
Date of transmission: Sunday 15 May 1960
Series: Twentieth Century Theatre
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
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Producer

Campbell Logan

Playwright

Frederick Lonsdale (1881-1954)

Designer

Barry Learoyd

Cast

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