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The Devil Inside Him

A play by John Osborne.

"Set in a 1950s boarding house in the rolling hills of the Welsh Valleys, The Devil Inside Him tells the story of Huw Prosser, a young man suffocating in his tight-knit Methodist community. He is bullied by his father, who thinks he is soft in the head, and, when his erotic poems are discovered, he is subjected to sermons by the local preacher.

As he desperately searches for a way to express himself, and reaches out for the love he so urgently needs, he unearths the dark and wild side of a man who has never been understood; and when he finds himself alone with the pretty, teasing servant girl he finds his thoughts turning to murder..."

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