Dramatized from the novels of John Galsworthy. Galsworthy's famous trilogy has been'superbly adapted for the stage and achieved enormous acclaim following a national tour, starring Nyree Dawn Porter. Set between 1886 and 1920 with multiple locations cleverly contained within one set — a Victorian'style conservatory — requiring the minimum of props, the play centres on'soames and Irene and the'stifling, destructive power of the Forsyte family, embodied in the cold hauteur of Soames.