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The grand finale is reached following several complications, misunderstandings and coincidences which form an integral part of the play. Uk writer Raymond Hopkins began his playwriting career after his daughter Katy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 19. Hopkins wanted to help raise money for research into the disease, and decided to do it by writing a stage play. After 18 months, he had completed his first manuscript and called it
Love Begins at Fifty. The play proved an immediate success, running for a whole summer season at TOADS theatre in Torquay, UK. Hopkins has now written 10 full length farcical comedies, all with the word ‘love’ in the title.