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I keep Wishwood alive To keep the family alive, to keep them together, To keep me alive, and I keep them. She is, as her doctor later explains, clinging on to life by sheer willpower: At the beginning, the family of Amy, Dowager Lady Monchensey are assembling for her birthday party. The play is in two acts, set in Wishwood, a stately home in the north of England. In New York, the play has been staged at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1947, the Phoenix Theater in 1958, with Fritz Weaver, Florence Reed and Lillian Gish, and by the visiting Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000 (the Swan Theatre production listed above).

Donmar Warehouse, London (November 2008) with Samuel West, Gemma Jones and Penelope Wilton directed by Jeremy Herrin.Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon (June 1999 transferred to the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, February 2000) with Greg Hicks, Margaret Tyzack and Lynn Farleigh.Directed by Michael Elliott and originally staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester Vaudeville Theatre, London (April 1979) with Edward Fox, Pauline Jameson and Avril Elgar.

Phoenix Theatre, London (June 1956) with Paul Scofield, Sybil Thorndike and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.

Mercury Theatre, London (November 1946) with Alan Wheatley, Catherine Lacey and Henrietta Watson.

Other productions of the play have included: The play was first performed on 21 March 1939 at the Westminster Theatre, London, with Michael Redgrave as Harry, Helen Haye as Lady Monchensey and Catherine Lacey as Agatha.