Lord Adrian

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Norman Marshall, Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, London started 14^th April 1937.

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First produced by Lord Longford at the Gate Theatre, Dublin on 9^th March 1937.

Concerns an elderly Duke who undergoes a rejuvenating monkey-glands operation, then marries his secretary and produces a son, Lord Adrian. The boy’s strange affinity with animals sends him into the woods at night, teaching foxes and badgers how to make fire and fomenting an animal revolt.

Reviews include: George Buchanan, ‘Boy into Beast’, News Chronicle 17^th April 1937 (page 7) and Philip Page, ‘Lord Dunsany writes a queer play’, The Sphere 24^th April 1937 (page 24).

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