★★★★ ‘Theatrical enterprise like this makes you proud to be British’
Libby Purves, The Times

★★★★ ‘witty, spirited and eminently revivable’
Michael Billington, The Guardian

★★★★ ‘Here’s a fine and surprising discovery… ebullient and handsomely presented’
Michael Coveney, Whatsonstage

★★★★ ‘an impressively irreverent and coherent production… cheeky, contemporary flourishes’
Critics’ Choice, Time Out

London, 1780. And it’s marriage season. But one group of wily women are determined to challenge the status quo.

Young Letitia Hardy is shocked when her fiancée returns from the Continent convinced that English women are dull. Defying convention, she sets out to gain his love with an ingenious scheme to prove him wrong.

Meanwhile, Sir George is trying desperately to protect his wife from the evils of high society. He hasn’t counted however on two of London’s most rambunctious wits, Miss Ogle and Mrs Rackett, making it their mission to convert her into a lady of fashion.

One of the most popular plays of its time, The Belle’s Stratagem, has not been performed in over a century.

Monday, 19 September at 10.15pm
With members of the cast and creative team

Monday, 26 September at 10.15pm
With members of the cast and creative team

Tuesday, 27 September at 10.15pm
Fine Ladies: Hannah Cowley, the female wit and the presentation of women in The Belle’s Stratagem