Engaged
From: Wednesday, 27th November 2002
To: Saturday, 11 January 2003
Our Review: 
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Our Review:
6 December 2002
When WS Gilbert's ' Entirely Original Farcical Comedy in Three Acts' was first performed, theatregoing Victorians viewed with horror the portrayal of a character's nakedly mercenary ambitions. The wry and elegant wit of Gilbert, freed from the rumpty-tumpty confines of Sir Arthur Sullivan's tunes, failed to impress contemporary sceptics despite the fact that Engaged is said to have proved the inspiration for Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest a few short years later. Indeed, in form, it is a cross between Wildean comedy and the Savoy operettas.
It deals with the commercial side of marriage. If Paul Chadidi's Cheviott Hill (brilliant) enters into nuptial vows - as a result of plot convolutions which can only be followed with a wet towel over one's forehead - each of the other eight characters will either benefit or be made impecunious. Hill himself is a rich, self-centred and bumptious miser who has yet one further personality fla...
Cast
Sam Dowson
Andrew Bone
Paul Chahidi
Caitlin Mottram
Vivien Heilbron
Claire Redcliffe
Octavia Walters
Robert Benfield
John Paul Connolly
Creative
W S Gilbert (Author)
Orange Tree (Producer)
Tim Carroll (Director)
Sam Dowson (Design)
Sam Dowson (Costume)
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