Harlequinade (Rattigan)

The play was first performed on 8 September 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London, along with The Browning Version.

[1] This is a one act play about a professional theatre company presenting Romeo and Juliet.

The principal characters are Arthur and his wife Edna (who play Romeo and Juliet) and the stage manager Jack.

Arthur is horrified to be confronted by his grown up daughter (Muriel) and grandchild, neither of whose existences he had been aware of.

There are a number of other threads running through this play, such as Jack's attempts to leave the theatre and do a 'real job' and the humdrum world of bit players and the attempts in post-war Britain to bring culture to the masses.