Browne: Three Plays: Family Dance; Odds on Oblivion; The Great Aunts

Includes the plays Odds on Oblivion, The Family Dance and The Great Aunts

In The Family Dance, while the children dance, the adults are in crisis in the kitchen. Family life is too much for one of them…

In Odds on Oblivion a distinguished elderly academic is desperate to stay alive until a university chair is founded in memory of her husband. The university wants her to contribute half a million pounds, but she has no idea how to raise it, until a beguiling notion comes to her.

The Great Aunts takes place in 1905 in an isolated house in Central Wales, home of a retired soldier and his family. Con, the youngest of the four daughters is ill and must escape to the sun. Her one chance of survival is to marry the wealthy Mr Rudd.