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A Little Winter Love

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Alun Owen 

  • Setting

    The setting is a small university in Wales.

  • Synopsis

    The story of a small university in Wales endowed by a defunct Welsh-American tycoon who had had an eye for personable skivvies and power and visited by his daughter, a spinster and her chosen father-replacement an academic administration-man, who is also a Welsh-American, and is incidentally taking over the university in an all-American way before assassinating his wife's father for the joy of Dean of an equivalent American foundation. The entaglement of his colleague's, the Poet, who is having an affair with the Welsh-American's wife and the Liverpudlian brain-boy who is making passes at the Lolita-ish daughter of another university resident, secretary to the principal.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

Original Production

  • Date of First Production

    September 1963

  • Producer

  • Original Venue

    Gaiety Theatre

Original Cast  
Unspecified Character(s) T.P. McKenna
Unspecified Character(s) Edwin Richfield
Unspecified Character(s) Genevieve Lyons
Unspecified Character(s) Artro Morris
Lewis Peter Vaughan
Unspecified Character(s) Vivienne Drummond
Gwen Patricia Brake
Production Team  
Director Godfrey Quigley
Settings by Mary O'Keeffe

Rights Information

  • Territory

    All Territories

  • Rights Type

    All Rights

  • Contact

    Felix de Wolfe

  • Address

    Manfield House,
    376-378 Strand,
    London, WC2R 0LR
    England

  • Phone

    +44 - 020 - 7379 5767

Source Of Information

The source for this entry are press cuttings from contemporary newspapers.