The Confidential Clerk

Sir Claude Mulhammer, a wealthy entrepreneur, decides to smuggle his illegitimate son Colby into the household by employing him as his confidential clerk.

He hopes that his eccentric wife, Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer, will take a liking to the boy and allow him to live as her adopted son.

T. S. Eliot's penultimate play premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953, before transferring to the West End with the same cast.

[2] It played from September 1953 to April 1954 at the Lyric Theatre[2] before embarking on a UK Tour.

Primavera Productions produced the play as part of the 'rediscoveries season 2007' at the Finborough Theatre, directed by Tom Littler.