🎭 Zack | A Fool’s Wisdom and the Triumph of Good Cheer

📻 Saturday Night Theatre
✍️ Harold Brighouse

✒️ “There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” - G. K. Chesterton

🕯️ A Chestertonian Introduction
Modern life is forever praising the clever man, while quietly hoping he will not be put in charge of anything too human. Zack turns this habit upside down. It is a play that suggests the truly dangerous people are not fools, but those who believe they are wise.

Zack himself, dismissed as a simpleton, wanders through life with the serene confidence of a man who has never mistaken cunning for character. While others scheme, Zack loves; while others calculate, Zack trusts. And in the delightful arithmetic of comedy, he somehow ends up richer than them all—without ever having learned to count.

📖 Synopsis
Zack is a warm-hearted Edwardian comedy centered on Zack Munning, the cheerful but underestimated son of a provincial wedding-services family. Dismissed as foolish by his sharper, more calculating relatives, Zack nevertheless possesses a rare gift: a natural goodness that disarms vanity, pride, and cruelty.

As family ambitions tangle with romance, money, and reputation, Zack’s apparent simplicity becomes a quiet moral force. In the end, it is not cleverness but kindness that wins the day—granting Zack both self-respect and love, and reminding everyone that wisdom sometimes wears a foolish smile.

🎧 Why This Play Endures
A classic Edwardian stage comedy adapted for radio
A gentle but sharp moral inversion—virtue over cleverness
Perfect for listeners who enjoy character-driven humor with heart
A reminder that goodness often looks foolish to a fashionable age

📻 About Saturday Night Theatre
For decades, Saturday Night Theatre brought the stage to the wireless—introducing radio audiences to classic dramas, comedies, and adaptations performed by some of Britain’s finest actors. It remains one of the great traditions of BBC radio storytelling.

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