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| The Lucky Chance by Aphra Behn. It was presented by the Women's Playhouse Trust and the Royal Court Theatre on 10th July, 1984. Cast: Sir Cautious Fulbank - Paul Bacon Lady Julia Fulbank - Harriet Walter Gayman - Alan Rickman Sir Feeble Fainwould - Jonathan Adams Leticia Bredwell - Katherine Pogson Bellmour - Denis Lawson Bearjest - Christopher Fairbank Diana Fainwould - Francesca Brill Bredwell - Mark Tandy Fiddler - Pam Ferris Story: The Lucky Chance is above all an indictment of arranged marriages. Young Leticia Bredwell has been purchased as a bride for the revolting old Sir Feeble Fainwood. Feeble's friend, Sir Cautious Fulbank, also bought himself a bride, Julia, who-like Leticia-is in love with another younger, poorer man. The women and their lovers determine to end this tradition of marital servitude before Leticia must consummate her marriage and Feeble's daughter, Diana, becomes the next victim. |
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| Some reviews: "...It has been given an agile production by Jules Wright and is wonderfully strongly cast with Harriet Walter and Katherine Pogson as the young beauties, Denis Lawson and Alan Rickman as their chaotic suitors and Paul Bacon and Jonathan Adams as the old lechers. ..." Sheridan Morley, Punch "...Alan Richman as Gayman gains some much-needed laughs as he finds women literally laid at his feet and Denis Lawson makes Bellmour an amusing, ever-anxious suitor. ..." Milton Shulman, Evening Standard * Thanks to Alice's Requiem and The Off-Off Broadway Review * |