by Rodney Ackland
Adapted from the novel by Hugh Walpole with Mary Jerrold as Lucy Amorest
Jean Cadell as May Beringer
Edith Evans as Agatha Payne
The action takes place in an old house in Pontippy Square, Polchester
Production by John Richmond
The Old Ladies, which was first produced at the New Theatre in 1935, deals with a phase in the life of three elderly residents of a Polchester boarding-house. Those who think that the common human emotions are dead in the very old will find much to disillusion them in this story of the private hopes and fears of three very much alive people. Mary Jerrold, Jean Cadell, and Edith Evans are all playing the original parts that they took at the New Theatre.