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  • ★★★★ ‘Theatrical enterprise like this makes you proud to be British’
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    ★★★★ ‘Here’s a fine and surprising discovery… ebullient and handsomely presented’
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    ★★★★ ‘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.

  • Creative Team

    Directed by
    Jessica Swale

    Designed by
    Simon Kenny

    Music by
    Laura Forrest-Hay

    Lighting Design by
    Christopher Nairne

    Cast

    Marc Baylis
    Gina Beck
    Holly Blair
    Cassandra Bond
    Jackie Clune
    Samuel Dent
    Tim Dorsett
    Mark Fountain
    Jeremy Joyce
    Michael Lindall
    Christopher Logan
    Joseph Macnab
    Nigel Munson
    Hannah Spearritt
    Maggie Steed
    Robin Soans

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  • 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

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