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Tea and Sympathy

Drama / 9m, 2f / Int. From the author of I Never Sang for My Father, this groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's coming of age amid the taunts and suspicions of his classmates and teachers at a private boy's academy. Only a sympathetic act of compassion by the wife of the headmaster gives young Tom the courage to grow into a man. A hit onstage and film with Deborah Kerr.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1950snew england
Audience
adult
Length
short · 92 pages
Form
plays

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