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LATE LOVE

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A comedy in three acts by Rosemary Casey. Produced by Michael Abbott at the National Theatre, October 13, 1953. Closed January 2, 1954. (95 performances)

Cast of characters: (in order of appearance) Frank Albertson...Billy Gordon Cliff Robertson...Matthew Anderson Ann Dere...Sarah Neil Hamilton...Graham Colby Elizabeth Montgomery...Janet Colby Lucile Watson...Mrs. Colby Arlene Francis...Constance Warburton

The action takes place in the living room of the Colby home in Connecticut early in September of the present year. Act I --Sunday afternoon. Act II --The following Saturday morning. Act III -- Ten seconds later. Staged by John C. Wilson; setting and lighting by Stewart Chaney; costume supervision by Frank Thompson; associate producers, Howard Erskine and Bonnie Alden; stage manager, Ward Bishop.

Synopsis: Tale of a household presumably tyrannized over by a puritanical dowager, but actually, it turns out, kept in chains by her priggish novelist son. A lady painter arrives to do the novelist's portrait, quickly sizes him up, and remains to set his people free.

From The Best Plays of 1953-1954 by Louis Kronenberger. Cast bios from The Playbill.