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12 July 2001 – 25 Aug 2001July 2001
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Details
- Playwright
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Director
- Judy Davis
AddressDrama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
For Lady Sneerwell and Mister Snake, whispering innuendo and slander are the very stuff of life. So venomous their witty barbs, so deliciously lethal their insinuations that others flock to their salon, sharpening their poisonous darts, accelerating rumour and generally having a ball. Better to eat than to be eaten.
R. B. Sheridan has written one of the most enduringly funny plays in the English repertoire, perfectly balanced between its shattering one-liners and its sympathetic and truthful core.
Poor Sir Peter Teazle endures the folly of taking on a younger wife, and struggles to have her love him. The principled Sir Oliver must test his venal nephews even if it breaks his heart. While Lady Sneerwell (Essie Davis) permits herself a lover (but only insofar as fashion will allow), the lovely young Maria finds her own passion used as a pawn, in this world where truth is bought and sold the highest bidder.
In this stylish, effervescent production, Judy Davis assembles Australia's leading actors to take us into a society where a good character is as great a liability as a poor one, and where drinking Spa water instead of Burgundy is the measure of a city going downhill fast.
Sheridan grants his audience a godlike view of intricately tangled webs made before our eyes, and the great relief that we're not the ones being talked about.
"How nice it is to be doing a contemporary playÂ…thatÂ’s 350 years old!"
Nick Schlieper, Lighting Designer
DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance between the world of the play and modern Sydney is completely coincidental.
Further details.
R. B. Sheridan has written one of the most enduringly funny plays in the English repertoire, perfectly balanced between its shattering one-liners and its sympathetic and truthful core.
Poor Sir Peter Teazle endures the folly of taking on a younger wife, and struggles to have her love him. The principled Sir Oliver must test his venal nephews even if it breaks his heart. While Lady Sneerwell (Essie Davis) permits herself a lover (but only insofar as fashion will allow), the lovely young Maria finds her own passion used as a pawn, in this world where truth is bought and sold the highest bidder.
In this stylish, effervescent production, Judy Davis assembles Australia's leading actors to take us into a society where a good character is as great a liability as a poor one, and where drinking Spa water instead of Burgundy is the measure of a city going downhill fast.
Sheridan grants his audience a godlike view of intricately tangled webs made before our eyes, and the great relief that we're not the ones being talked about.
"How nice it is to be doing a contemporary playÂ…thatÂ’s 350 years old!"
Nick Schlieper, Lighting Designer
DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance between the world of the play and modern Sydney is completely coincidental.
Further details.
Bookings
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