All in Good Time (play)

All in Good Time is a comic play by Bill Naughton based on his 1961 Armchair Theatre television play "Honeymoon Postponed". Originally produced at the Mermaid Theatre in 1963 in London, it subsequently transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, and then to Broadway, where it ran for 44 performances in February and March 1965.[1][2] The Broadway cast included Donald Wolfit, Marjorie Rhodes and Richard Dysart.[3] It received Tony Award Best Actress and Best Featured Actress nominations for Marjorie Rhodes and Alexandra Berlin.[4]

Ad for the Broadway production, at the Royale Theatre

Plot

Teenage newlyweds living with the groom's parents, have difficulties consummating their marriage.

Original production

The play, directed by Josephine Wilson, opened on 6 March 1963 at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre, London, before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in the West End.[5]

Original Broadway production

The play, directed by Donald McWhinnie, opened at the Royale Theatre, New York, on 18 February 1965 and closed on 27 March 1965.[3]

Adaptations

The play was adapted for the 1966 film The Family Way.[6]

All in Good Time (2011) shares much of the plot of The Family Way but it features a Hindu couple, and their planned honeymoon destination is Goa, not Majorca.

Notes
  1. "Bill Naughton collection". www.boltonlams.co.uk.
  2. "BILL NAUGHTON - A CENTENARY BLOG". petherbridgesweeklypost.blogspot.co.uk.
  3. "All in Good Time". IBDB.com. The Broadway League. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  4. "All in Good Time Broadway @ Royale Theatre - Tickets and Discounts - Playbill". Playbill.
  5. "Production of All in Good Time - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  6. Variety Staff (1 January 1967). "The Family Way".
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