The Constant Couple
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 25, 2007
Closed Dec 23, 2007
Opened Nov 25, 2007
Closed Dec 23, 2007
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George Farquhar's youthful comedy The Constant Couple (1699) invites us into a London teeming with colorful characters. Steadfast Colonel Standard wants nothing more than to win the charming Lady Lurewell. But his way is littered with scheming rivals, troublesome fops, and bumbling rustics, all of whom seem to have some claim on his lady love. Combining all the wicked joy of the jaded Restoration stage with the "novel" notion that faithfulness and integrity might have their uses too, The Constant Couple illuminates a world merrily careening between deceit and honesty, cynicism and hope--between the follies of the past, and the glorious possibilities of the future.
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If Ben Jonson had set out to create the female equivalent of the scheming, avaricious and lecherous Volpone, he might have come up with something similar to Lady Lurewell, the protagonist of George Farquhar's 1699 play The Constant Couple. This little-known work is being presented by the Pearl Theatre Company in a production that gracefully emphasizes the play's many assets, but one that does little to mitigate some of its weaknesses.
Lady Lurewell (played with an unconvincing mix of girlishness and cattiness by Rachel Botchan) is a late twentysomething who was "dishonored" and jilted at 15. She has now made it her business to torment any man who shows a passing interest in her. As the pl[...]