PRODUCTION NOTES

George Etheredge's witty and sexy  Restoration comedy was updated and adapted by Ms. Huffman to 1915 London. The Bloomsbury set, headed by the decadent Lady Ottoline Morell and her revolving stream of lovers, artists, or protegees like Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Virgina Woolfe were an inspiration for this production.

The adaptation by Ms. Huffman removed the subplot and changed the dowager Lady Townley and her neice Emilia into lovers whose home was the social gathering place for a variety of indulgences from opium smoking, to a meeting place for dancing, drinking, sexual hijinks, even bellydancing lessons.  

Dorimant, who has slept with nearly every woman in the play, meets his match in Harriet and he risks everything in order to seduce and conquer her. With famous characters like Mrs. Loveit and Sir Fopling Flutter the play is a delight for audiences and an insight into the pleasures and pursuits of the upper classes.