The story, set in the present-day, is a mixture of farce and Gothic horror.  Sixty-something Henry, a morose widower who spent his working life in a printing-shop fills in what seems his futile 'retirement' acting as unpaid caretaker of a closed-down village school due to be reopened as a local history museum.  He finds himself in conflict with Veronica, a sophisticated, highly ambitious academic and leading member of the museum trust.  They each come from different worlds but at the centre of their struggle is a gift to the museum of theatrical materials including an old toy theatre, some plays and a brief letter that Veronica must at all costs suppress because it invalidates the exciting new discovery she is about to publish.

Details about Toy Theatres past and present and the Drury Lane production on which the play was based have been carefully researched. Pollock's Toy Theatre shop is briefly referred to.

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