A Bold Stroke for a Wife
24th Feb 2023
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Young Colonel Fainwell wants to marry Anne Lovely but there’s a problem: he needs the consent of all four of her guardians and they’re very different men. How can he possibly meet the combined approval of a stockbroker, a Quaker, an antiquarian, and an ageing fashionista? The answer: by becoming a stockbroker, a Quaker, an antiquarian, and a fashionista.
Susanna Centlivre’s forgotten comic masterpiece (1718) was hugely popular in the eighteenth century and deserves to find a new audience in the twenty-first century.
The running time will be approximately 75 minutes.
This rehearsed reading is presented in collaboration with the R/18 Collective and TORCH. It follows previous rehearsed readings of Animal Magnetism and Who’s the Dupe?.
