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Fresh look at old favourite
From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
Date: 20080328
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She Stoops To Conquer is a classic comedy of manners that has truly stood the test of time, and it comes to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, next month.
The play by Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith was first performed in 1773, and more than two centuries later this sparkling version stars Liza Goddard and Colin Baker.
A comedy of errors based on a series of misunderstandings, the action takes place on one night in a family home that the travelling aristocrat Charles Marlow believes to be an inn.
It involves lecherous posh young men, prim daughters behaving like serving wenches, much ...
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