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This is a great play with great performances, but the accents are so strong an American audience will have a very tough time with it. This play has everything - the class struggle, nuclear fallout, dementia, a woman sacrificing her career for her husband ... All the knives come out when the family matriarch dies. Mother and father were members of the working class who believed in post-war socialist Britain. They sent their sons to good schools to help them deal with the evil capitalists, but the sons come back changed men - they want the things that capitalism can give them. One son is now a scientist and a prig. The other lives off his rich wife but has numerous affairs and now has a pregnant girlfriend to deal with. This play is in the tradition of Room at the Top, Look Back in Anger, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and all the other films in the so-called British New Wave. You'd be better off watching them because you would be able to understand the dialogue.