If Love Were All (play)

This article is about the 1931 play. For the song by Noël Coward, see If Love Were All.
If Love Were All
Written byCutler Hatch (pseudonym of Agnes Morgan)
Characters
Dr. Philip Bryce,
  • Margaret Bryce
  • Janet Bryce
  • Frank Grayson
  • Alice Grayson
  • Ronald Grayson
  • George Manning
  • John
  • Emil
  • Fritz
  • A French waiter
  • An English tourist
  • A middle-aged German lad
  • A young French lady
  • A middle-aged German man
  • a youngish Frenchman
Date premieredNovember 13, 1931 (1931-11-13)
Place premieredBooth Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy of manners
SettingNew York, Paris, Vermont

If Love Were All, subtitled "a gentle comedy," is a comedy in two acts and 10 scenes by Agnes Morgan under the pseudonym "Cutler Hatch." It was first produced at the Booth Theatre on Broadway by Actor-Managers, Inc. (the firm set up by Morgan and her partner Helen Arthur). Settings were created by Charles Stepanek. It is notable for being a play staged on Broadway written by a woman, and produced by women.

If Love Were All ran from November 13 through November 21, 1931.[1] It was subsequently produced by Helen Arthur (Agnes Morgan's partner) in summer 1936 at the Casino Theatre in Newport, Rhode Island.[2]

  1. ^ "Theatrical Notes," New York Times (November 20, 1931), p. 28.
  2. ^ Billy J. Harbin, Kim Marra, Robert A. Schanke editors, The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: a Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005), p.30-32.