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.

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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