Housemaster (play)

1936 cast. Seated, middle row, Kynaston Reeves as Ovington, Hilda Trevelyan as Barbara Fane, and Frederick Leister as Donkin, front, second from right, Joan White as Button

Housemaster is a comedy by the English playwright Ian Hay, first produced at the Apollo Theatre, London, on 12 November 1936, running for 662 performances.[1] Under the title Bachelor Born, the play was presented on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre in January 1938, running for just over a year.[2] A film was made of the play in 1938.

The play depicts the conflict between a wise housemaster and a puritanical younger headmaster at an English public school, with the action complicated by the unexpected incursion of two women and two girls who have to be accommodated in the otherwise all-male establishment.

  1. ^ Gaye, p. 1532
  2. ^ Gaye, p. 1543