While the Sun Shines (play)

While the Sun Shines is a comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan which was first staged in 1943.

[3] The action takes place over three acts in an apartment at Albany where the wealthy Earl of Harpenden, serving in wartime as an ordinary seaman, is about to marry his long-standing fiancée.

Complications are caused by the arrival of two rival suitors an American airman and a Free French officer, Harpenden's prospective father-in-law and an old girlfriend.

The cast of the Globe Theatre production included Douglas Jefferies, Robert Long, Hugh McDermott, Jane Baxter, Ronald Squire, Eugene Deckers and Brenda Bruce.

[5] and on Broadway, the New York Herald Tribune found "A gay drawing-room comedy has come romping to the rescue of the faltering season.

Programme for the original production at the Globe