The Rivals
Author(s):
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Company:
Orange Tree Theatre
You thought! Thought does not become a young woman.
Bath in the Roaring Twenties: risqué revelry, romance, and rivalry in the Assembly Rooms—a town torn between tradition and the new age.
Lydia and Jack are made for each other—but Lydia’s a rebel and Jack’s too posh to be her beau. What’s a chap to do? A little harmless deception, of course.
Meanwhile, Jack’s father, Anthony Absolute, is absolutely determined to be obeyed, and Lydia’s guardian Mrs Malaprop is seeking a love-affair of her own—if only she could find the right words...