Lloyd George Knew My Father (play)
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Lloyd George Knew My Father is a 1972 play by the British playwright William Douglas-Home
. The black comedy
features an elderly and eccentric aristocratic couple who learn that a bypass
is to be built through their property. The wife declares her intention to commit suicide in protest, and the complications arising from this set up the rest of the play's action.
The play has had various revivals and has continued to be staged into the 21st Century. A version was shown on British television in 1982.
William Douglas-Home
William Douglas Home was court-martialled in World War II for his refusal to obey orders as a British army officer and later became a successful British dramatist.-Early life:...
. The black comedy
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
features an elderly and eccentric aristocratic couple who learn that a bypass
Bypass (road)
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety....
is to be built through their property. The wife declares her intention to commit suicide in protest, and the complications arising from this set up the rest of the play's action.
The play has had various revivals and has continued to be staged into the 21st Century. A version was shown on British television in 1982.