Second From Last In The Sack Race

A wry and funny play tracking the ups and downs in the life of young Henry Pratt. Born in 1935 in a back-to-back in the north of England, Henry’s childhood is disrupted first by the war, then by the death of his mother, followed shortly after by that of his father. Entrusted to the care of his social-climbing relatives, Henry is soon packed off to prep school and public school but returns to live with his grown-up cousin Hilda. Despite all these upheavals, Henry reaches the age of eighteen a reasonably well-adjusted young man.