Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Two scenes from The Faithful Heart written by the Irish writer Monckton Hoffe (1880–1951), and produced at the Comedy Theatre in 1921.

   Two scenes from The Faithful Heart written by the Irish writer Monckton Hoffe (1880–1951), and produced at the Comedy Theatre in 1921.
   This is a  play in a prologue (set in 1899), two acts (twenty years later) and an epilogue. The prologue is set in the Reindeer Hotel, outside Southampton docks. Act one is set in "the private office of Colonel Ango in a hotel converted by the war department". Act two is set in "Colonel Ango's flat in Mount Street, London". The epilogue is again set in the Reindeer Hotel at Southampton.



(The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, December 24th, 1921)


   The Faithful Heart was also performed in the United States from Oct 10, 1922–Nov 4, 1922, at Broadhurst Theatre, New York and Maxine Elliott's Theatre, New York.

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