Staff Book and Media Recommendations

Christina Edwards is a Research & Learning Librarian at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Title: Aren't We All?  A Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Frederick Lonsdale

If you’re a fan of Downton Abbey, then this play might be just the right fit for your reading pleasure. Set in a great British estate home, it has the same soap opera flair of a Downton episode. The characters are fun and entertaining, each with their own quirks of personality. Even the servants, while saying very little, manage to add to the telling of the story.

Quick synopsis: A man waits at home for his wife, who has taken a vacation to escape the many invitations to sing at local gatherings. His father is single (for perhaps the third or fourth time) and is rumored to be running about with women much too young and not quite aristocratic enough for his standing. Thus, the two do not see eye-to-eye on romance. Enter the female characters – one who keeps it no secret she is after the father and the other flirting shamelessly with the son. The wife then returns to find her husband embracing said flirt, and the he-said/she-said that ensues fuels the comedy until the end.

Reviewed April 2015