A play in six days and six nights by ROMAINWEINGARTEN translated from the French and adapted for radio by HENRY REED One of the great successes of the Paris theatre in recent times, Summer was briefly seen in the West End of London last year
• It was summer. There was a house in a country village. It had a garden The garden was inhabited by two middle-aged torn cats, who occasionally responded to the names of Chop-Cherry and Lord High Garlic; though more often than not they elected to disregard these names. There were in the garden also two children:
Lorette, a girl of -15, and Simon, her brother whom most people regarded as a simpleton, because he did not always speak very readily to people: yet he had his thoughts and feelings, and could sometimes communicate them to animals with and Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN