September 2006 – She Stoops to Conquer

Play Name: She Stoops to Conquer
Playwright: Oliver Goldsmith
Performance Start Date: Wednesday, 27 September, 2006
Performance End Date: Saturday, 30 September, 2006
Location:: Harrogate Theatre
Director:: Robin Green

Cast

Mrs Hardcastle............................Sue Rawson
Mr Hardcastle..............................Ian Rattee
Tony Lumpkin..............................Stuart Jarman
Kate Hardcastle...........................Lucy Gradwell
Constance Neville........................Alissa Reilly
Landlord.....................................Stuart Kellet
Marlow.......................................Dermot Hill
Hastings......................................Mike Crewe
Diggory.......................................Paul Dunstan
Sir Charles Marlow.......................Gavin Smith
Maid and Bet Bouncer...................Kate Antram

Synopsis

Psst ! Heard the latest? The place is all a' flutter. That silly overgrown schoolboy, T. Lumpkin, has been up to his old tricks again. Guess what he's done this time? There he was drinking and wassailing, as usual, with his chums in the Three Pigeons when he pulled a trick on a couple of innocent travellers and only persuaded them that his step-father's country house was an inn where they could get food, drink and a bed for the night! "What a giggle" he thought! Well maybe for him. Not for the travellers, nor Lumpkin's step-father nor his mother I can tell you. But then things took a bit of a turn when two fashionable young girls clapped eyes on the two eligible travellers. Word is, it all got very complicated then. Not sure how it ended, but I know there's a lot of trickery, silliness, confusion, wheeler-dealing and, - oh yes - lots of wigs, finery and heaving bosoms (if you like that sort of thing). Maybe the best plan is to cut along to Harrogate Theatre some time between September 27th and 30th and see if young Lampkin can wheedle his way out of the chaos he's caused. One thing's for certain; you'll get a good laugh. Ecod !

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