The Voysey Inheritance

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Play from 18 April 2006 to 30 September 2006

Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre) South Bank, London

Harley Granville Barker's play The Voysey Inheritance, directed by Peter Gill, returns to The National Theatre following a successful season earlier in the year.

Edward's highly principled world upturns when his father reveals that he has been illegally speculating with clients' money. To make matters worse, he soon discovers his large, scandal-fearing family would perpetuate the crime rather than risk public dishonour. And it's to Edward they look.

"Of course it's pleasant and comfortable to keep within the law... then the law will look after you. Otherwise you have to look pretty sharp after yourself. You have to cultivate your own sense of right and wrong... deal with your own justice. But that makes a bigger man of you, let me tell you."

The cast for The Voysey Inheritance includes Lucy Briers, Julian Glover, Martin Hutson, John Normington, Dominic West and Andrew Woodall.