Relative Values

by Noel Coward

performed by BTG October 1958

Light comedy

Moxie is maid to Felicity, Countess of Marshwood. When Felicity's son Nigel announces his engagement to Miranda Frayle, the film star, Moxie is distressed as Miranda is really her sister, who ignored her family after becoming famous. Miranda starts describing the home from which she ran away, saying her sister drank and she had to care for her mother. Outraged, Moxie blurts out the truth - and the engagement becomes rather strained.