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Playwright
Terrence Rattigan
Performance Dates
October 20-21, 1950
Creative Team
Director.......................................Marion Chase
Technical Director.......................Don Walter
Business Manager......................Tom Hammond
Sound Technician.......................Jim Yost
Property Supervisor....................Glenn Sheens
Lighting Technicians...................Albert Sanders and Jim Yost
Music Director.............................Professor Shackson
Music..........................................Community Orchestra
Synopsis
The action of the play takes place in the Winslow family home in Kensington, London, in the years immediately before the First World War. The fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow has been expelled from naval college, accused of the theft of a postal order. The boy remains adamant that he is innocent. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a leading lawyer, Sir Robert Morton, to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court. The play follows Arthur’s attempts to clear his son’s name, even in the face of public opposition and weakening resolve. Each member of the family suffers as the case slowly unfolds, including Ronnie’s suffragette sister Catherine, who sacrifices her own happiness and ambition in the pursuit of justice for her brother.
https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-winslow-boy-iid-153919
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University, "The Winslow Boy" (1950). 1907-1958 Productions. 67.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/67