Love In Idleness

Love In Idleness is a 1944 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan. A young man with radical left-wing views returns from Canada to discover to his horror that his mother is in a relationship with a wealthy businessman currently serving as Minister for Tank Production.

It was staged in New York with the title O Mistress Mine.

Original production
The play opened (following a pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944, with the following cast:
 * Olivia Brown - Lynn Fontanne
 * Polton - Margaret Murray
 * Miss Dell - Peggy Dear
 * Sir John Fletcher - Alfred Lunt
 * Michael Brown - Brian Nissen
 * Diana Fletcher - Kathleen Kent
 * Celia Wentworth - Mona Harrison
 * Sir Thomas Markham - Frank Forder
 * Lady Markham - Antoinette Keith