故事发生在19世纪的伦敦，在那个工业化方兴未艾的钢铁时代，在街头巷尾、在画廊、在充满怀古风情的普通房屋里，拉斐尔前派兄弟会(Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)的画家、诗人和评论家正热烈地针砭时弊，探讨艺术，展望人生。这些致力于打破旧习的人，用他们富有激情的「男性浪漫」在人生之路上不断奋斗。阴谋家，不知羞耻，叛逆者，你有时甚至可以这么称呼他们。但他们绝不会放弃自己的追求－－为了名誉、金钱、地位、成功、爱情，还有性。制片人用很形象的语言描述本剧为：拿着画板的「明星伙伴」(Entourage)。
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The family, from whose tentacles we can never quite escape. When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile, are haunted by the memory of the family they once were. As the weekend’s celebrations unfold, the family walks a tightrope between intimacy and estrangement, camaraderie and rivalry, love and hate. Heartbreaking and joyful, this captivating revival of Dodie Smith’s (I Capture the Castle) play is a moving dissection of family and what it means to grow up and return home. Lindsay Duncan (Hansard) plays Dora in this beautiful, contemporary production, directed by Emily Burns (Jack Absolute Flies Again).