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Constance

The King's Head Theatre, Inner London
From: Tuesday, 13th September 2011
To: Sunday, 23 October 2011

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Synopsis

William Daventry, a rich industrialist and self-made man, is married to Constance, the perfect wife: loyal, faithful, and with excellent family credentials. At the Daventry s country house, various members of Constance s extended family, a zealous man of the cloth and his flirtatious wife are assembled for an evening of entertainment - such as is affordable only by the middle classes, a fact deplored by the Duchess of Sandgate and her companion, Sir Richard. An incident between the Reverend s wife and the industrialist sets in motion a train of events that risk upsetting the moral code of this aristocratic family, driving them from Twickenham to London to the Tyrolean Alps.

Our Review:

19 September 2011

Constance is billed as “a new play by Oscar Wilde”, and although there has been some insistence by Wilde’s grandson that the play is not his grandfather’s, the influence of the playwright is obvious.

The play is a standard Wildean comedy about society and class. William Daventry (James Vaughn) is a self-made man. He has the perfect wife in Constance, who has excellent family credentials. At Daventry’s country manor are various members of Constance’s family (all from the aristocracy), the Reverend Mr Preston, played with brilliant comic suppression by Bradley Cole, and his flirtatious wife.

As you would expect there are witty aphorisms and plays-on-words aplenty. Much like The Importance of Being Earnest is a play on “earnest”, Constance deals with issues of constancy and faithfulness in a relationship, with Constance being the human embodiment of the word.

The play moves alon...

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