Arts

The Country Wife

By iZine | 09 February 2010

Banned from the stage for almost 200 years, The Country Wife is one of the rudest and funniest comedies of the Restoration period.

Harry Horner, a notorious and lascivious womaniser, hatches an ingenious plot to seduce the women of London society en-masse. With the help of a corrupt doctor, Quack, he spreads rumours of his own impotency, thereby fooling the men of the town into allowing himunfettered access to their wives.

Meanwhile, Margery Pinchwife, a young country bride, arrives with her ludicrously possessive husband. He is determined to keep her away from the city rakes, but Marjery is determined to enjoy all London pleasures , especially that of being loved by Mr Horner....

This tale of high-jinx and hypocrisy, of money and marriage, of sex and scandal is as pertinent today as it has always been.
“This was an excellent choice for this talented group of young actors” Bristol Evening Post on The Man of Mode, 2008

“An excellent lesson in bringing period drama to riotous life”
Venue on Tartuffe, 2007

By William Wycherley
Directed by Jenny Stephens

Bristol Old Vic
Thu 11 - Sat 20 February 2010
Eves 7.30pm
Thu and Sat mats 2.30pm
No mat Thu 11
First night ALL TICKETS £9
Eves 7.30pm
Weekday matinees and evenings £13 full £9 concessions
Fri & Sat all tickets £13

Box Office 0117 987 7877

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