Voysey Inheritance

<p>Financial chicanery and ethical conflict in early twentieth-century classic being revived at the National Theatre <p/><br>Edward's highly principled world is turned upside down 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. <br>'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.' <br>This magnificently observed hugely enjoyable portrait of an upper-middle-class family was written by the father of 20th-century British theatre Harley Granville Barker ten years before the First World War finally sent old values flying.<br>The play was first staged at the Court Theatre London in 1904. It opens at the Royal National Theatre on 18 April 2006.</p>