Man kann nie wissen: Komödie in vier Akten

A widowed mother and her grown children return to a seaside town and become entangled in a sequence of romantic confusions, comedic deceptions and mistaken identities that draw in a local dentist, a lawyer and assorted townspeople. Misunderstandings about parentage and propriety generate witty confrontations that satirize social pretenses and clashing moralities; farcical situations and brisk dialogue move the action through four acts toward reconciliations and several unions. The play uses domestic scenes and sparkling repartee to probe themes of family bonds, class-consciousness, generational difference and the tension between conventional respectability and candid personal feeling.