Lloyd George Knew My Father is William Douglas Home’s play about the eccentric English aristocracy starring Edward Fox and Claire Bloom.

Monday morning is fast approaching. That’s when work is due to start on the bypass that will cut through the historic grounds of Boothroyd Hall – and when the redoubtable Lady Boothroyd has vowed to do away with herself the moment the bulldozers arrive! She’s perfectly calm about it: the family are in shock. But can any of them, or even the vicar, manage to dissuade her?

Light as a soufflé, William Douglas Home’s dotty comedy depicts the English aristocracy at their most maddeningly eccentric, but with just enough wry melancholy to touch the heart. It also has some up-to-the minute comments about old age, Englishness and the destruction of the countryside.

One of Britain’s most acclaimed actresses, Claire Bloom’s career spans more than fifty years, from Ophelia with the RSC to TV’s Brideshead Revisited.

Edward Fox, still renowned for TV’s Edward and Mrs Simpson, has been seen most recently on stage in Legal Fictions and You Never Can Tell.