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PRODUCTION: The Irregular Verb To Love (Comedy) PRODUCTION DATE: 1967 DIRECTED BY: John Poulson STAGED: The Park Centre, Burgess Hill SYNOPSIS: Hedda Rankin, wife of a zoo official, returns from prison to her London home to find out what her family have been up to whilst she's been away. Her husband has not been faithful, her daughter's got rid of her own husband and is now pregnant by another man and her son has brought a Greek girl back with him from abroad, who can speak no other language. Hedda sets out to bring her household to its senses, but it is her husband who eventually puts things right, while she takes the credit.... PLAYWRIGHTS: Hugh Williams and Margaret Williams were a husband and wife writing team who wrote a number of plays together. Hugh (born 1904) was an English actor and dramatist of Welsh descent who became a popular stage and major film star in the British Cinema of the 1930s. Margaret 'Vyner' Williams was an Australian born actress and dramatist, who married Hugh Williams in 1940. Apart from 'The Irregular Verb To Love', they also wrote 'The Grass is Greener' (1960).
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