Love In Idleness is a 1944 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan.[1] A young man with radical left-wing views returns from Canada to discover to his horror that his mother is in a relationship with a wealthy businessman currently serving as Minister for Tank Production.
It was staged in New York with the title O Mistress Mine.[2]
The play opened (following a pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944, with the following cast:[3]