4 F / 5 M
Farce in three acts
1 Set
General Sir Mallalieu Fitzbuttress returns from a long stay in Malaysia and finds out that a whole lot has changed in his absence. His son Robert has been expelled from school, because he had shouted peace propaganda during a festive service. The son is living in the present, with his long hair, his guitar, his girlfriend and his opinions all outside convention. The daughter is pregnant and does not care about who the father of the child is.
Unlike what is expected, the general appreciates the changes. He withdraws into himself in order to digest the new situation and then returns as a sustained hippie in rags and with a guitar on his back and moves up into a tree with a black girl. It soon turns out that the children’s revolutionary ideas loose power because they do not meet any resistance from their father. In the end both children enter into a controversial marriage.
The play has a humorous dialogue and is a great situation comedy.
