A Sleeping Clergyman is a 1933 play in Two Acts by James Bridie.

[4] It then transferred to Broadway's Guild Theatre in October 1934, where it closed after 40 performances.

[6] Hereditary evil runs through three generations of a medical family, in the 'conflict of social morality and natural desires'[7] - the dissolute and murderous Camerons (from 1867 to 1935) - before a son and daughter finally redeem the family name.

[8][9] The play was later adapted for radio and broadcast on the BBC's Saturday Night Theatre on 1 January 1949.

[10] A televised version was also broadcast by the BBC, in its Sunday Night Theatre slot on 11 January 1959.