Butterflies are Free
Past productions
- Hall Green Little Theatre, Birmingham
- Garrick House Ltd, Lyceum Theatre, Crewe
- Theatre Royal, Brighton, Grand Theatre & Opera House, Leeds, and other locations
- Windsor Theatre Company, Theatre Royal, Windsor
- Arthur Whitelaw and H M Tennent Ltd, Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London and Theatre Royal, Brighton
A play by Leonard Gershe
Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a blind man living in downtown Manhattan, whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie. The title was inspired by a passage in Charles Dickens’ 1853 novel BLEAK HOUSE: “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”