Love in Idleness, 21st to 23rd March, 19:30 and 14:30 on Saturday
Presented by the Henley Players. Love in Idleness, written in 1944 by Terence Rattigan, and revived very successfully in 2017, is a fascinating fusion of comedy and political comment: one of Rattigan’s lighter plays, it sparkles with Cowardesque wit and humour. Young Michael returns from his evacuation to Canada bursting with left-wing ideals, only to discover that his widowed mother is enjoying a liaison with a wealthy Tory industrialist and member of the War Cabinet, a representative of all that Michael opposes. A tug-of-war comedy, with echoes of Hamlet, ensues, as Olivia is torn between her callous offspring and her devotion to Sir John, whose ghastly wife gives him little to turn to.

Half a Sixpence, 1st to 4th May, 19:45 and 14:30 on Saturday
The show is based on H.G. Wells's novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul. Arthur Kipps is an orphan who unexpectedly inherits a fortune and climbs the social ladder before losing everything and realising that you just can't buy happiness. An HAODS production.