The Rivals
From: Monday, 4th October 2010
To: Saturday, 9 October 2010
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Synopsis
Restoration comedy about social morals and hypocrisy. Mrs Malaprop, the infamous Queen of the Dictionary, is horrified. Her niece, the rich and beautiful Lydia Languish, is in love and wants to marry the penniless Ensign Beverley. Outraged, Mrs Malaprop demands that Lydia marry the eligible and dashing Captain Absolute who has arrived in Bath to court her. Little do they both know that the Ensign and the Captain are one and the same man...What follows is a delightful tangle of romance, fury and deception, making The Rivals one of the funniest and best loved comedies in the English language.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 4 October 2010
Peter Hall’s production of Sheridan’s The Rivals starts as it means to go on. We’re in Bath with Simon Hughes’ curved honey-coloured set serving for both exterior and interior scenes. It’s a world of wigs and sedan-chairs, a society whose veneer of politesse shrouds mercenary motives and sexual shenanigans. People strike attitudes – and some of these are more than mere poses.
Faulkland can be a regular bore, so much so that you wonder why Julia doesn’t give him his congé much earlier in the play than she does. Tony Gardner and Annabel Scholey make them into real people, far more dynamic than the nominal young hero and heroine, Jack and Lydia. Robyn Addison plays the laid-back heiress with a voice as empty as the character’s head; Tam Williams is a very young army captain with more than an eye for passing beauties.
Both Penelope Keith as the verbally challenged Mrs Malaprop and Peter Bowles as ...
Cast
Penelope Keith (Mrs Malaprop)
Peter Bowles
Creative
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Author)
Theatre Royal Bath (Producer)
Peter Hall (Director)
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