A restoration comedy about a deceitful playboy who starts a rumor that he is a eunuch in order to gain the company of the ladies. His plan works well until he encourages the country wife of a jealous husband. This is a comedy of manners which paints an unflattering picture of the worldly hypocrites, would-be wits and fools who infested London in the late 17th century.
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Arena Stage, Zelda Fichandler, managing director, Alan Schneider, production director presents "The Country Wife," by William Wycherly, directed by Zelda Fichandler, setting by Marshall Yokelson, lighting by Leo Gallenstein, women's costumes by Jan Sheridan (Lady Fidget's and Margery Pinchwife's by H. Michael).
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National Theatre, The Playwrights' company and Malcolm Wells and Daniel Blum present Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Pamela Brown in "The Country Wife," by William Wycherley, the English stage company production with Ernest Thesiger, John Moffatt, Maureen Quinney, Richard Easton, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Ludi Claire, Peter Donat, directed by George Devine, decor by Motley, music by Thomas Eastwood, associate producer Don LaSusa.
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'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services - the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the ye.
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'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery, whose husband believes she is too naïve to cuckold him; and an anti-hero, Horner, who pretends to be impotent in order to have unrestrained access to the women keen on 'the sport'. A number of licentious and hypocritical women request Horner's services -- the country wife among them. The Country Wife has provoked powerfully mixed reactions over the years. The seventeenth century libertine king Charles II saw it twice, and is said to have joined the 'dance of the cuckolds' at the end of one performance; the eighteenth century actor-playwright David Garrick declared it 'the most licentious play in the English language'; the Victorian Macaulay compared it to a skunk, because it was 'too filthy to handle and too noisome even to approach'. Twentieth century productions heralded it a Restoration masterpiece. Sexually frank, and as ready to criticise marriage as infidelity, the virtuosity, linguistic energy, brilliant wit, naughtiness and complexity of this ribald play have made it a staple of the modern stage.
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