A matter of gravity: A comedy in three acts

by Enid Bagnold

Katharine Hepburn returned triumphantly to Broadway as Mrs. Basil, a rich old lady living in a decaying English country house. She has a lesbian alcoholic cook who levitates and a grandson who is down from Oxford with a group that includes a left wing lesbian and her bi-racial girlfriend. The grandson proposes to the girlfriend and she accepts because she covets the estate. Years later, they return and Mrs. Basil gives them her house and joins the cook in a nearby asylum.

Genres: Plays

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

British writer of novels and plays, best known for National Velvet and The Chalk Garden.

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Reviews

[Scott]

Dreadful play. Bagnold, whose plays were always a bit odd, seems to be trying to channel Albee, but doesn't know how to do it.