Details

Set on a houseboat on the Thames on the eve of the Great War, The New Morality is a sparkling social comedy by one of the greatest lost talents of the First World War. Colonel Jones has been paying a little too much attention to Muriel, one half of the couple who live on the next houseboat to theirs. The Colonel s wife, Betty, driven to distraction by his disloyalty, disastrously breaches the boundaries of female etiquette when she directly confronts Muriel about the relationship, and the delicate social fabric holding the riverboat community together begins to fall apart... A satirical yet profound look at the battle between the sexes and the position of women in Edwardian England - it is now revived for the first time in 87 years, since its original West End and Broadway productions in 1921. Running time approx. 2 hours with one interval

Creatives/Company

Author: Harold Chapin
Producer(s): Golden Oryx Productions (in association with Concordance), Isabella Thomas
Director: Kate Wasserberg