The Dearly Beloved: A Play: Acting Edition S.

When Alaric, a successful London television producer, returns to his sleepy rural home town, his arrival heralds suffering and domestic turmoil in this sensitive, compelling depiction of a variety of family relationships. The play was critically acclaimed at Hampstead Theatre in 1993.

'... exceptionally poignant, and there is no mistaking the overall richness of this play. Osment's penetrating observation of character and heartening generosity of spirit mark him out as a dramatist of exceptional and distinctive promise.' Daily Telegraph