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The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the authorâs âruthlessly honestâ first play (The Guardian). Â In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young grandniece, Rose Pemberton, following the death of her mother. To the mortification of her aunts, Rose has also brought her lover, Michael Dennis, who is twenty-five years Roseâs senior, married, and a psychology lecturer dictated by reason, not faith. In a home that reeks of sanctimony, Rose and Michael are as welcome as sin. But itâs the arrival of Michaelâs distraught wifeâarmed with righteous emotional blackmail and worseâthat ignites an unexpected fury and makes real the familyâs greatest fears. Â Premiering in London in 1953 and moving to Broadway one year later, Graham Greeneâs debut as a dramatist was hailed by Kenneth Tynan as âthe best first play of its generation.â Â |
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