National Theatre Live: The Beaux Stratagem
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Simon Godwin
Screenplay: George Farquhar
Top 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
Videos
National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem
