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Comedy play by Terence Rattigan This article is about the play. For the Thoroughbred racehorse, see Love in Idleness (horse).

Love In Idleness is a 1944 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan. A young man with radical left-wing views returns from Canada to discover to his horror that his mother is in a relationship with a wealthy businessman currently serving as Minister for Tank Production.

It was staged in New York with the title O Mistress Mine.

Original production

The play opened (following a pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944, with the following cast:

Olivia Brown - Lynn Fontanne
Polton - Margaret Murray
Miss Dell - Peggy Dear
Sir John Fletcher - Alfred Lunt
Michael Brown - Brian Nissen
Diana Fletcher - Kathleen Kent
Celia Wentworth - Mona Harrison
Sir Thomas Markham - Frank Forder
Lady Markham - Antoinette Keith

References

"Less Than Kind (Love in Idleness)". www.samuelfrench.co.uk.
Taylor p.150
"Love in Idleness - Drama Online". www.dramaonlinelibrary.com.

Bibliography

John Russell Taylor. The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play. Routledge, 2013.

v t e Works by Terence Rattigan
Plays	First Episode (1933) A Tale of Two Cities (1935) French Without Tears (1936) After the Dance (1939) Follow My Leader (1940) Grey Farm (1940) Flare Path (1942) While the Sun Shines (1943) Love In Idleness (1944) The Winslow Boy (1946) The Browning Version (1948) Harlequinade (1948) Adventure Story (1949) Who Is Sylvia? (1950) The Deep Blue Sea (1952) The Sleeping Prince (1953) Separate Tables (1954) Variation on a Theme (1958) Ross (1960) Man and Boy (1963) A Bequest to the Nation (1970) In Praise of Love (1973) Before Dawn (1973) All on Her Own (1974) Cause Célèbre (1975/77)
Films and TV	The Belles of St. Clements (1936) Gypsy (1937) French Without Tears (1940) Quiet Wedding (1941) The Day Will Dawn (1942) Uncensored (1942) English Without Tears (1944) The Way to the Stars (1945) While the Sun Shines (1947) Brighton Rock (1947) Bond Street (1948) The Winslow Boy (1948) The Browning Version (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) The Final Test (1953) The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Separate Tables (1958) Adventure Story (1961) Heart to Heart (1962) The V.I.P.s (1963) The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) Nelson (1966) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Bequest to the Nation (1973) The Browning Version (1994) The Winslow Boy (1999) The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Related works	Joie de Vivre (1960) The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963)

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