The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton
Hilarious comedy set shortly after the end of World War II
Confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls School is accidentally
billeted at Hilary Hall - a boys school.
The two heads, Godfrey Pond and Muriel Whitchurch try to cope with the ensuing chaos as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.
The comedy is derived from the fact that the parents of the St Swithins girls would consider it improper for their daughters to be exposed to the rough mix of boys in Pond's school, and from the consequent need to conceal the fact that the girls are now sharing a school that's full of boys. Pond is offended at the suggestion that his boys are not suitable company for the young ladies of St Swithin's, but he needs to appease Miss Whitchurch in order to salvage his chances of an appointment to a prestigious all-boys school for which he is in the running, and which depends on his ability to prevent his current post presenting the appearance of a bear garden.
Matters come to a head when parents from the two different schools come to visit. Frantic classroom changes are made, and hockey, lacrosse and rugby posts and nets are swapped about, as students and staff try to hide the unusual arrangement.
