Humble Boy

A luminous new play about life, love — and bee-keeping. Cambridge don Felix Humble comes home for his father’s funeral only to discover that his bee-keeping dad hasn’t exactly vacated the premises. And his queen-bee mother, Flora, has her eye on her next consort. Secrets of the past are rapidly coming to light, the present is confusing and the prospects for the future are disturbing. This tightly woven comedy, the 2001 winner of the London Critics’ Circle Award, embraces broken vows, failed hopes and the irony of looking for a unifed field theory in all the wrong plces.