Love in Idleness

Love in Idleness (1944), (played in U.S. as O Mistress Mine), is a comedy by British dramatist Terence Rattigan (1911-1977).

It opened on 20 December at the Lyric theatre in the West End and was performed in New York at the Empire Theatre on 23 January 1946, starring the famous stage couple Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne. Loosely based on the story of Hamlet, the plot looks at an idealistic, Labour-leaning eighteen year old boy who returns from evacuation to discover his mother is living with a reactionary Tory.

Performance history in South Africa
Presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society under the title O Mistress Mine, July 1950.

Performed in the Library Theatre in 1955, with Margaret Inglis, John Hussey and Brian Bell, directed by Inglis.

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