It's a study in human foible. What responsibilities do we have to the people we live with, whether they are family or strangers? |
The British Empire was at its peak. How could there be anything wrong with a society that was so brilliantly successful? |
Their hubris was amazing. But are supposedly nice people really all that different now? The ability to misuse another person and then find reasons to excuse it is a universal human trait. |
We hope that when families leave, they will spend the rest of the night debating the play. It raises a lot of disquieting questions. |
We hope they will realize that human nature contains both compassion and cruelty and that we all are capable of both. In either case, you are responsible. Nobody gets off free. |
You want to be like them -- at least in the first part of the play. |