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Harvey

Mary Chase

194472 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1944
first published
  • 1944Dramatists Play Service · 72 pages · ENG
  • 1952English Theatre Guild · 98 pages · ENG
  • 1953Oxford University Press · 89 pages · ENG
  • 1970Dramatists Play Service · 72 pages · ENG
  • 1971Dramatists Play Service · 72 pages · ENGISBN 9780822205005
  • 2000Universal · 105 pages · ENGISBN 9780783256641
  • 1990Josef Weinberger Plays · 120 pagesISBN 9780856761379

One of the longest running comedies in Broadway and West End history, Harvey has endeared generations of audiences with the relationship of the amiable Elwood P Dowd and his best friend, the 6’1” tall white rabbit which only he can see. Elwood’s family are finally driven to committing him into Chumley’s Rest - home for the mentally disturbed, and here the fun really starts when Doctor Chumley becomes convinced he, too can see Harvey and, believing that the rabbit is a spirit of good fortune, attempts to charm him away from Elwood. The madness is catching as everybody soon believes that Harvey is as large as life. A true classic of modern theatre.

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