The Green Bay Tree

A 1933 play first performed with Laurence Olivier on the West End and Broadway.

A modern classic, an infamous comedy of manipulation by Mordaunt Sharp that, in 1934, made a leading Broadway star of Laurence Olivier, opposite his then-wife Jill Esmond.

"I hope I shan't meet you one day in Piccadilly with a painted face, just because you must have linen sheets"

A beautiful young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée and the lifestyle of his male mentor.

This is the infamous comedy of manipulation that, in 1934, made a leading Broadway star of Laurence Olivier, opposite his then-wife Jill Esmond. The Green Bay Tree (1933) was a scandalous hit in the West End and on Broadway.