'We Were Dancing' is set at a dinner-dance on a South Sea island, where two married people fall suddenly in love when they are dancing - unfortunately they are not married to each other. They spend a blissful night planning their future and trying to shrug off Louise's husband, but as the next day dawns and the music has stopped, little of the last night's enchantment remains. 'We Were Dancing' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.