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

• Original Venue

  Gaiety Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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