She Stoops to Conquer
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 13, 2009
Closed Nov 1, 2009
Opened Oct 13, 2009
Closed Nov 1, 2009
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A boisterous comedy of mistaken identities, She Stoops to Conquer has delighted audiences for over two centuries with its gorgeous language, elegant costumes, and outright hilarity. Sparks fly when young urbanite Charles Marlow arrives at a country estate to court Kate Hardcastle, only to take her father for an innkeeper and her for a saucy barmaid! Good-natured hijinks and grand pretensions abound in this frothy romp that pits town against country and parent against child.
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What do you get when you match
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith's beloved 1773 comedy, with fast-thinking director Nicholas Martin, a cast of top-drawer farceurs headed by reliable zanies Paxton Whitehead and Kristine Nielsen, a lavish David Korins set, and costumes designed with wit and panache by Gabriel Berry? The answer is on view at Princeton's McCarter Theatre: a first-rate revival of a play that dispenses belly-laughs by the handfuls, even if Martin and his accomplished troupe can't make every sequence sing.
For his comedy of manners, Goldsmith concocted such a convoluted plot about mistaken identities and concomitant foolishness that unraveling it to get to the ending where[...]