The Beaux' Stratagem
Ticket Prices
$7; $5 opening night
All seats are general admission.
Performance Times
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
2 p.m. Sunday
By George Farquhar
Directed by John Countryman
April 15-18 & 22-25
After squandering their fortunes on food, drink, and gambling, two London “beaux” (gentlemen) seek refuge and rich wives in the country. The Beaux’ Stratagem finds them down to their last few pounds in a Staffordshire village. Here, their stratagem for seducing ladies of stature and wealth and returning as quickly as possible — to London, of course — runs a-foul of true love and a colorful collection of rogues, thieves, dunces, and strong women who give as good as they get. Laughter is the only possible reaction to Farquhar’s skewing of the institution of marriage.
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