Movement Direction
The Watermill Theatre, Newbury | Thursday 15th March – Saturday 21st April 2018
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Adapted by Beth Flintoff
Directed by Jonathan Humphreys
Designed by James Cotterill
Lighting designed by Katharine Williams
Composer and Sound Designer Simon Slater
Bath 1775.
Lydia Languish is passionately in love with a dashing but penniless soldier with whom she plans to elope.
Mrs Malaprop, her guardian, commands she ‘illiterate him’ from her memory and marry the rich and handsome son of a friend who is ‘the very pineapple of politeness’.
Little do they realise that both poor Beverley and the wealthy Captain Absolute are one and the same young man. Cue confusion, romance, misunderstanding and a twilight duel.
Taking place over one hilarious day, this classic comedy of desire, intrigue and romantic delusion, bursts onto The Watermill stage. An energetic ensemble perform a fresh, funny and fast-moving new version directed by Jonathan Humphreys whose previous credits include The Mighty Walzer (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible).
Press:
★★★★ ‘An enjoyably light and modern affair’ The Stage
★★★★★ ‘A feast of high-blown cod grandiloquence is delivered with crisp authority’ The Spy In The Stalls