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Theatre programme for play ‘Barnaby and the Old Boys’ by Keith Baxter at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, 4 Dec 1989. The play is set in the Morgan family home in south Wales. The play was first produced at Theatre Clwyd, Mold, on 12 May 1987.

Overview of play - “Tensions begin to rise, and when Hywel returns after fifteen years in Canada with an unexpected lover, who is both male and black, violent prejudice is revealed. The attempt to recreate the Wales of their youth turns into a nightmare, in which family skeletons tumble out of every closet and which ends in tragedy”.