In Praise of Love

Past productions

Royal and Derngate Theatres Northampton, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton 5^th – 23^rd April 2011.
Chichester Festival Theatre, Minerva Theatre, Chichester started 8^th June 2006.
Theatre Royal, Bath 2000 – 2001.
Perth Theatre Company, Perth Theatre 1996.
Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue), London 21^st February – 1^st July 1995.
Dundee Repertory Company, Dundee Repertory Theatre, Tay Square 1992.
Nicoll Theatre Co., Cirencester Theatre 1989.
The Mill at Sonning Dinner Theatre, The Mill, Sonning 30^th September – 1^st October 1986.
Penny Royal Theatre, Bosham 20^th – 29^th August 1985.
aYlNlfdX, Princess Theatre, Hunstanton 4^th – 8^th June 1985.
King’s Head Theatre, London started 1^st March 1982.
Chesterfield Civic Theatre, Civic Theatre, Chesterfield 22^nd October – 1^st November 1980.
Windsor Theatre Company, Theatre Royal, Windsor 13^th – 31^st May 1980.
Cambridge Theatre Company, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon 11^th – 16^th March 1980.
Plymouth Theatre Company, Athenaeum Theatre, Plymouth started 4^th June 1979.
Churchill Theatre, Bromley 15^th August – 3^rd September 1977.
Farnham Repertory Company, Redgrave Theatre, Farnham 9^th – 26^th April 1975.
Duchess Theatre, London 27^th September 1973 – January 1974.
Princess Theatre, Torquay 1969.

When this play was first performed in the West End on the 27^th September 1973 at the Duchess Theatre it was in the form of a double bill with the overall title of “In Praise of Love”. The main play, subsequently known as “In Praise of Love”, was then titled “After Lydia” and was preceded by “a divertimento” called “Before Dawn”. The same four cast members played in both pieces. “Before Dawn” was not well received and was dropped from future productions and so “In Praise of Love” became the new title for “After Lydia”.

The play was “inspired” by the marriage of Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall.

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