National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem
2015•7.0•Released
Comedy
The 'Beaux': Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their 'Stratagem': to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles: a crooked landlord, a fearsome highwayman, a fervent French Count, a maid on the make, a drunken husband, a furious butler, a natural healer and a strange, turbulent priest. But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux' meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.
Director
Simon Godwin
Writer
George Farquhar
Languages
English
Studio
National Theatre
Cast
Lloyd Hutchinson
Boniface
Amy Morgan
Cherry
Samuel Barnett
Aimwell
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Archer
Pippa Bennett-Warner
Dorinda
Susannah Fielding
Mrs. Sullen
Joplin Sibtain
Gibbet
Pearce Quigley
Scrub
Timothy Watson
Count Bellair
Jamie Beamish
Foigard
Richard Henders
Mr. Sullen
Molly Gromadzki
Gipsy
Jane Booker
Lady Bountiful
Nicholas Khan
Sir Charles Freeman
Mark Rose
Hounslow
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