The Constant Wife

W. Somerset Maugham’s biting 1926 comedy of manners about high society infidelity and inequality of the sexes is as tartly funny and insightful today. A woman who thinks she has the perfect marriage discovers what everyone else seems to know- that her husband has been having a longstanding love affair. Determined not to allow it to destroy their bond and to continue playing the dutiful wife, her growing fascinaton with society’s double standard leads her to explore the possiblilty of tasting some forbidden fruit of her own.