by Monckton Hoffe
Adapted by Eric Crozier
The prologue : 1899
The play
Scenes
Prologue: The Reindeer Hotel,
Southampton
Twenty years elapse
Act 1: The private office of Colonel
Ango'in a hotel converted by the War Department
Act 2 Colonel Ango's flat in Mount
Street
Epilogue: The Reindeer Hotel,
Southampton
Produced by Howard Rose
The Faithful Heart was produced by Leon M. Lion in joint management with the author at the Comedy Theatre on November 16, 1931.
It tells how one Waverley Ango , sailor-turned-soldier, promoted to Colonel in the last war, had to choose between worldly success and a memory he had forgotten: a memory that floods up and comes alive in the person of his own daughter-her mother long dead, the girl who had loved him too easily twenty years before. As captain of a tramp steamer, he sets sail with Blacky the second, to work out the lesson, as he sees it, of the Great War-to do the inexplicable thing because one knows it is right.