Less Than Kind

London 1944: The war is reaching its climax on the beaches of Normandy, but a senior minister has problems not just in supplying the front line with tanks, but also on the home front. He has been having a passionate but illicit affair with a war widow, and now her son, evacuated for the duration, returns.

Learning of the affair, the youth explodes, railing against the minister’s ‘immorality’, and accusing him of exploiting his mother. At once a sparkling ‘comedy of manners’ and a psycho-sexual drama, ‘Less Than Kind’ has astounded critics.