Relative Values

There is concern when the young Earl, Nigel, announces that he will marry a Hollywood actress. But the family are truly flummoxed when it is revealed that the young starlet's sister is Moxie, the Earl's mother's lowly maid! Taking matters into her own hands, the countess decides that – to protect the future of the family name – she must devise a way to stop the marriage to someone of such an undesirable class, leading to chaos breaking loose.

A classic Noël Coward comedy, Relative Values is a humorous take on the controversial subject of class relations, as Hollywood culture and English aristocracy collide, with disastrous consequences. An upstairs–downstairs satire of the complexities of snobbery and reverse snobbery, full of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets.