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The Country Wife: Wycherley's wife is in rude good humour with this cracking production! |
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Written by Dean Beedell (webmaster)
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 Lace petticoats, wigs, bawdy romps, a complicated fast-paced plot and
lots of smutty, sharp witted, sattirical dialogue make this restoration
comedy wirtten in 1675 by William Wycherley as shocking today as it was
when it was first released on an unsuspecting public! Pioneers in the
field of risque - and fresh from their triumph with The Graduate - The
Henley Players tackle this marathon seduction with great gusto.
The plot involves the the devices of a rake's trick of pretending to be
impotent in order to safely have clandestine affairs with married women
- and the arrival on the scene of an inexperienced young "Country wife"
enjoying for the first time the joys of London life... especially the
fascinating young men.
The scandalous trick and the frank language have for much of the play's
history kept it off the stage between 1753 and 1924,and out of print
for most of that time. It was modified by David Garrick as the watered
down The Country Girl, but this has fallen into obscurity and it is the
original play that is produced today, by the Henley Players. Noted for
his realistic interpretation of text, director Michael Huntington has
not missed a "trick" in this delightful and amusing tour of the
bedchambers of the noted London female nobility.
The Country Wife plays at the Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames RG9 2BP
16th - 20th March. Box Office 01491 575698
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