Habeus Corpus

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Alan Bennett's hilarious introspective on English middle-class mores and social predilections in late 1960s Britain, the decade which gave birth to the swinging London scene and the 'permissive society'.

The play is a satirical farce written in a non-naturalistic style, verging onto the theatre of the absurd. Its action revolves around the household of Dr Wicksteed and, in the time-honoured tradition of farce, concerns the sexual escapades of the doctor, his family and their entourage. The 'goings-on' are dryly observed by the charlady, and cool reality slowly overtakes empassioned frenzy to culminate in the play's final pronouncement that 'He whose lust lasts, lasts longest'.