Morphic Graffiti presents
The Country Wife
By William Wycherley
28 March – 21 April
Director: Luke Fredericks; Set and Costume Designer: Stewart Charlesworth
Movement Director: Heather Douglas; Lighting Designer: Sam Waddington
Co-Artistic Directors of Morphic Graffiti, Luke Fredericks and Stewart Charlesworth, today announce casting of the ‘Bright Young Things’ for their new adaptation of William Wycherley’s restoration comedy The Country Wife. Luke Fredericks directs EastEnders’ Eddie Eyre as Harry Horner, Call the Midwife’s Leo Staar (Harcourt), West End stars Siubhan Harrison (Alithea) and Nancy Sullivan (Margery Pinchwife) with Daniel Cane (Sparkish), Mabel Clements (Lucy/ Dainty Fidget) and Joshua Hill (Dorilant) completing the company. Thrust into the excesses and seductions of late 1920s London: a city exploding with a heavy mix of jazz, gin and scandalous affairs the production, opens at Southwark Playhouse on 4 April, with previews from 28 March, and runs until 21 April. Full casting still to be announced.
“Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power”. Oscar Wilde
Renowned playboy, Harry Horner, has made it known in the society pages that he is now impotent. For the jealous husbands, this cunning lothario is neither a threat to their wives nor their reputations.
Meanwhile, business brings the newly married Jack Pinchwife to the city with his much younger wife Margery in tow. Dazzled by everything laid out in front of her, Margery is determined to savour it all, regardless of the consequences.
This is the Twenties, the ladies are now very much on top and they alone will decide what, and indeed who, comes their way.
With the decadence of the London social scene and the creative and sexual revolution of the ‘Bright Young Things’ movement, it won’t just be the hemlines that are rising at Southwark this spring.
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The Country Wife
Listings
Southwark Playhouse
77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD
28 March – 21 April
Box Office: 020 7407 0234
Tickets:
£12 (Wednesday 28 March to Monday 3 April 2018)
£20/£16 (concessions)
Performance Schedule:
Monday to Saturdays 7.30pm. Matinees on Saturdays and Tuesdays at 3pm
Age guidance: 12+