Love In Idleness
# Love In Idleness

Love In Idleness is a 1944 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan. A young man with radical left-wing views returns from Canada to discover to his horror that his mother is in a relationship with a wealthy businessman currently serving as Minister for Tank Production.

It was staged in New York with the title O Mistress Mine.

## Original production

The play opened (following a pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944, with the following cast:

* Olivia Brown - Lynn Fontanne
* Polton - Margaret Murray
* Miss Dell - Peggy Dear
* Sir John Fletcher - Alfred Lunt
* Michael Brown - Brian Nissen
* Diana Fletcher - Kathleen Kent
* Celia Wentworth - Mona Harrison
* Sir Thomas Markham - Frank Forder
* Lady Markham - Antoinette Keith
