Theatr Mwldan screen London Assurance, live and direct from the National Theatre in London, on Monday 28th June at 6.50pm.
Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker. Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the National Theatre by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
This is an incredible opportunity to experience theatre of the highest quality, live via satellite from the London stage. Tickets for London Assurance at Theatr Mwldan on Monday 28 June are a snip at £10 (£8 concessions). To book, call Theatr Mwldan’s Box Office on 01239 621200 or visit www.mwldan.co.uk
