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She Stoops To Conquer, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alan Price, Oliver Gomm, Howard Chadwick, Guy Lewis, Jon Trenchard, Andrew Whitehead, Robert Took, Gilly Tompkins, Hannah Edwards, Lauryn Redding, Alan McMahon.

The 18th Century was one of richness in the field of theatre. By the time Oliver Goldsmith’s play, She Stoops To Conquer, had been performed for its debut performance the sight of women acting on the stage was so commonplace that it was an absurdity to have been forbidden from performing in the first place. There had been so many plays that had benefited from King Charles II proclamation a century before, so many talented writers getting more emotion from a finished piece and so many gifted women being rightly lauded that it the art of the Comedy of Manners took off in such a way and perhaps no more so than in the fantastic She Stoops To Conquer.

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(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Northern Broadsides Return To The Playhouse Theatre For The Classic Romp, She Stoops To Conquer.

Following their recent successes of An August Bank Holiday Lark and Rutherford & Son, Northern Broadsides are set to light up the Liverpool stage once more, as they bring Oliver Goldsmith’s classic romp She Stoops to Conquer to the Playhouse. The 18th century comedy of manners, filled with ludicrous misunderstanding, mischief and mayhem, runs from Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd November.

Tongue-tied, uptight Charles Marlow needs a lesson in the art of love. He longs for a wife but finds it easier to have a bit on the side. Barmaid Kate Hardcastle seems fair game – but there’s more to her than meets the eye. Set against the increasingly chaotic proceedings of one very long night, She Stoops to Conquer is filled with larger than life characters, outrageous frocks and plenty of mayhem.

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(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)